Literary Fiction · ThoughtfulRabbit Angstrom at forty-six, finally comfortable
Rabbit Is Rich
by John Updike
Rabbit Angstrom has money at last, and finds it settles nothing
Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, a former high school basketball star, and his wife Janice live comfortably in Brewer, Pennsylvania, after inheriting her late father's Toyota dealership. Janice's drinking, their son Nelson's troubles and Harry's own desires complicate their life. Harry also wonders whether his former lover Ruth had his daughter.
More about this book
Who
Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom; his wife Janice; their son Nelson; and Ruth, Harry's former lover.
World
Brewer, Pennsylvania, a fictional poor city.
What makes it different
It is the third of four Rabbit novels, after Rabbit, Run and Rabbit Redux and before Rabbit at Rest. It won the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the National Book Award for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Feel
Observant and unhurried, with plenty of dry humor.
Page count and cover shown for: Selected edition
Behind the book
Updike designed the first-edition dust jacket himself. Its rainbow design differs from the striped covers of the other three Rabbit novels.
Source: Wikipedia
Further reading
- Rabbit Is RichWikipedia