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Amazon.com ReviewIt's 1989, and Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom feels anything but restful. In fact he's frozen, incapacitated by his fear of death--and in the final year of the Reagan era, he's right to be afraid. His 55-year-old body, swollen with beer and munchies and racked with chest pains, wears its bulk "like a set of blankets the decades have brought one by one." He suspects that his son Nelson, who's recently taken over the family car dealership, is embezzling money to support a cocaine habit. Indeed, from Rabbit's vantage point--which alternates between a winter condo in Florida and the ancestral digs in Pennsylvania, not to mention a detour to an intensive care unit--decay is overtaking the entire world. The budget deficit is destroying America, his accountant is dying of AIDS, and a terrorist bomb has just destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 above Lockerbie, Scotland. This last incident, with its rapid transit from life to death, hits Rabbit particularly hard: Imagine sitting there in your seat being lulled by the hum of the big Rolls-Royce engines and the stewardesses bring the clinking drinks caddy... and then with a roar and giant ripping noise and scattered screams this whole cozy world dropping away and nothing under you but black space and your chest squeezed by the terrible unbreathable cold, that cold you can scarcely believe is there but that you sometimes actually feel still packed into the suitcases, stored in the unpressurized hold, when you unpack your clothes, the dirty underwear and beach towels with the merciless chill of death from outer space still in them. Marching through the decades, John Updike's first three Rabbit novels--Rabbit, Run (1960), Rabbit Redux (1971), and Rabbit Is Rich (1981)--dissect middle-class America in all its dysfunctional glory. Rabbit at Rest (1990), the final installment and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, continues this brilliant dissection. Yet it also develops Rabbit's character more fully as he grapples with an uncertain future and the consequences of his past. At one point, for example, he's taken his granddaughter Judy for a sailing expedition when his first heart attack strikes. Rabbit gamely navigates the tiny craft to shore--and then, lying on the beach, feels a paradoxical relief at having both saved his beloved Judy and meeting his own death. (He doesn't, not yet.) Meanwhile, this all-American dad feels responsible for his son's full-blown drug addiction but incapable of helping him. (Ironically, it's Rabbit's wife Janice, the "poor dumb mutt," who marches Nelson into rehab.) His misplaced sense of responsibility--plus his crude sexual urges and racial slurs--can make Rabbit seems less than lovable. Still, there's something utterly heroic about his character. When the end comes, after all, it's the Angstrom family that refuses to accept the reality of Rabbit's mortality. Only Updike's irreplaceable mouthpiece rises to the occasion, delivering a stoical, one-word valediction: "Enough." --Rob McDonald Rabbit at Rest Summary - eNotes.com Rabbit at Rest ends the saga Updike began in 1960 in Rabbit Run but brilliantly continues the history that Updike has been writing through the four volumes. Rabbit at Rest - Wikipedia Rabbit at Rest is a 1990 novel by John Updike. It is the fourth and final novel in a series beginning with Rabbit Run; Rabbit Redux; and Rabbit is Rich. Guardian review: Rabbit At Rest by John Updike Books ... F loating in a nimbus of greed and deceit Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom is America's cloudy barometer (the needle always pointing to bad) and John Updike its lofty rain ... Rabbit at Rest - Rabbit at Rest is the fourth and final installment of the tetralogy written by John Updike featuring as its protagonist Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom. Rabbit at Rest by John Updike Paperback Barnes & Noble Rabbit at Rest is the densest of the Rabbit novels and the writing style probably the most ornate. But for anyone who appreciates the power and beauty of words ... Rabbit at Rest' - - NYTimes.com - The New York Times ''Rabbit at Rest'' is certainly the most brooding the most demanding the most concentrated of John Updike's longer novels. Its courageous theme ... Rabbit at Rest - ew.com Rabbit at Rests vexing thinness may also derive from the novelists reluctance to contest the omnipresent materials of pop culture. Rabbit at Rest (Rabbit Angstrom 4) by John Updike ... Rabbit at Rest has 12364 ratings and 387 reviews. brian said: we believe that with time comes wisdom that by the time were older well have acquired ... Rabbit At Rest - Navy General Library Program Downloadable ... In John Updike's fourth and final novel about ex-basketball player Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom the hero has acquired heart trouble a Florida condo and a second grandchild. Rabbit at Rest - BookRags.com Rabbit at Rest Summary. Rabbit at Rest is the fourth and final novel in Updike's series on the adventures and fate of Harry Angstrom. By focusing on the life of an ...
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