Rabbit Is Rich
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| Author | John Updike |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Fiction |
| Publisher | Knopf |
| Released | September 12, 1981 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| Pages | 480 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 0394520874 |
| Preceded by | Rabbit Redux |
| Followed by | Rabbit At Rest |
Rabbit Is Rich is a 1981 novel by John Updike. It is the third novel in the four-part series which begins with Rabbit, Run and Rabbit Redux, and concludes with Rabbit At Rest. There is also a related 2001 novella, Rabbit Remembered. Rabbit Is Rich was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1982.
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This third novel in Updike's Rabbit series finds Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, a one-time high school basketball star, has reached a paunchy middle-age without straying from Brewer, Pennsylvania, the downtrodden, fictional city of his birth. Harry and Janice, his wife of twenty-two years, live comfortably, having inherited her late father's Toyota dealership. He is indeed rich, but Harry's persistent problems, including his wife's drinking, his troubled son's schemes, his libido, and spectres from his past, complicate life. Having achieved a lifestyle that would have embarrassed his working-class parents, Harry is not greedy, but neither is he ever quite satisfied. Harry nurses a crush on a country-club friend's young wife, dangerously seeking approval. Nevertheless he is unable to read the warning signs.
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| Preceded by A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole |
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1982 |
Succeeded by The Color Purple by Alice Walker |
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