Rabbit is Rich

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Author
John Updike
Publisher
Penguin
Genres
Fiction, Pulitzer Prize winner
Released
12 September, 1981

Rabbit is Rich

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    Synopsis

    It's 1979 and Rabbit is no longer running. He's walking, and beginning to get out of breath. That's OK, though – it gives him the chance to enjoy the wealth that comes with middle age. It's all in place: he's Chief Sales Representative and co-owner of Springer motors; his wife, at home or in the club, is keeping trim; he wears good suits, and the cash is pouring in. So why is it that he finds it so hard to accept the way that things have turned out? And why, when he looks at his family, is he haunted by regrets about all those lives he'll never live?Winner of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.“Unquestionably Updike’s finest novel . . . Funny and sharp and damnably intelligent.” The Boston Globe“Dazzlingly reaffirms Updike’s place as master chronicler of the spiritual maladies and very earthly pleasures of the Middle-American male.” Vogue
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    John Updike

    John Updike was the author of more than sixty books, including collections of short stories, poems, and criticism. His novels have been honored with the Pulitzer Prize (twice), the National Book Award, and the Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Hugging the Shore, an earlier collection of essays and reviews, received the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. He died in January 2009.

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