John Updike died in January 2009.Rabbit has never looked a less likely hero for an American epic. In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker.
He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. a brilliant portrait of middle America." -LifeĪbout the Author John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. It may even-will probably change your life."-Anatole Broyard "A superb performance, all grace and dazzle. Updike owns a rare verbal genius, a gifted intelligence and a sense of tragedy made bearable by wit."- Time "An awesomely accomplished writer. Rabbit is abandoned by his family, his home invaded by a runaway and a radical, his past reduced to a ruined inner landscape still he clings to semblances of decency and responsibility, and yearns to belong and to believe.
Ten years have passed the impulsive former athlete has become a paunchy thirty-six-year-old conservative, and Eisenhower's becalmed America has become 1969's lurid turmoil of technology, fantasy, drugs, and violence. In this sequel to Rabbit, Run, John Updike resumes the spiritual quest of his anxious Everyman, Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom. How he resolves-or further complicates-his problems makes a compelling read.
Harry Angstrom-known to all as Rabbit, one of America's most famous literary characters-finds his dreary life shattered by the infidelity of his wife. About the Book The assumptions and obsessions that control our daily lives are explored in tantalizing detail by master novelist John Updike in this wise, witty, sexy story.
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