Rabbit At Rest
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| Author | John Updike |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Released | 1990 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 512 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 0394589521 |
| Preceded by | Rabbit is Rich |
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. There is also a related 2001 novella, Rabbit Remembered. The novel, the second "Rabbit" novel to garner the Prize, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1991
[edit] Plot summary
The novel follows the exploits of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom from 1960-1990. It finds Harry forty years after his glory days as a high school basketball star in a mid-sized Pennsylvania city. Harry and his wife of thirty-three years, Janice, have retired to sunny Florida during the cold months, where Harry is depressed, bored, and dangerously overweight. Unable to stop nibbling corn chips and macadamia nuts, he finds himself contemplating death. He is distracted from his worries by the acts of his drug-addict son, Nelson, to whom Janice has very unwisely given control of the family business, a Pennsylvania Toyota dealership. Despite his unhappiness, he manages to take some comfort in his nine year old granddaughter, beautiful, athletic Judy. After Nelson comes back from rehab, and Janice begins work as a real estate agent, the family finds out that Harry has had an affair with Nelson's wife, Pru. This prompts Harry to escape to Florida. While hiding, Harry dies of heart disease.
| Preceded by The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos |
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1991 |
Succeeded by A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley |
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