Rabbit Angstrom: A Tetralogy (Everyman's Library No. 214)

About this book

The four novels in the acclaimed Rabbit seriesincluding the Pulitzer Prize winners Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit at Restbrought together in a single volume from one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century. When we first met him in Rabbit Run (1960) the book that established John Updike as a major novelist Harry (Rabbit) Angstrom is playing basketball with some boys in an alley in Pennsylvania during the tail end of the Eisenhower era reliving for a moment his past as a star high school athlete. Athleticism of a different sort is on display throughout these four magnificent novelsthe athleticism of an imagination possessed of the ability to lay bare with a seemingly effortless animal grace the enchantments and disenchantments of life. Updike revisited his hero toward the end of each of the following decades in the second half of this American century; and in each of the subsequent novels as Rabbit his wife Janice his son Nelson and the people around them grow these characters take on the lineaments of our common existence. In prose that is one of the glories of contemporary literature Updike has chronicled the frustrations and ambiguous triumphs the longuers the loves and frenzies the betrayals and reconciliations of our era. He has given us our representative American story. This Rabbit Angstrom volume is composed of the following novels: Rabbit Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit is Rich; and Rabbit at Rest.