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Rabbit is Rich (Hardcover)

by John Updike (Author) "running out of gas, Rabbit Angstrom thinks as he stands behind the summer-dusty windows of the Springer Motors display room watching the traffic go by..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 480 pages
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Distribution Services (11 Jan 1982)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0233974245
  • ISBN-13: 978-0233974248
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,079,245 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A title from the RABBIT quartet which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Now middle-aged, the hero settles back to enjoy the fruits of his labours and tries to avoid the onset of decay. First published in 1982.

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running out of gas, Rabbit Angstrom thinks as he stands behind the summer-dusty windows of the Springer Motors display room watching the traffic go by on Route 111, traffic somehow thin and scared compared to what it used to be. Read the first page
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4.0 out of 5 stars A slow start, but what a finish!, 10 Oct 2001
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This review is from: Rabbit is Rich (Paperback)
Here we are back with Rabbit, and I found it a slow start after Rabbit Redux. But it all feels right - Rabbit has taken over his father-in-law's business, has moved back in with his wife and is living with his mother-in-law.

As can be expected, Rabbit is not happy, and his realisation that Nelson (his son) is encroaching on his "territory" makes him angry. A mid-life crisis? No, Rabbit has had too many crises; this is just Rabbit kicking against mortality.

His golf club cronies provide light relief, but the set piece involves them on a Caribbean vacation and more than justifies the slowness of the start. As ever, Updike's sensuous use of prose is beautiful, over-rich but it works for me.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Rabbit has changed, 8 Oct 2009
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I read the first Rabbit novel when it was published in the UK, in the 1960s I believe.

I very much enjoyed that novel but found that Rabbit and I had grown apart over the years.

An insight into middle America and the changing values in society here and there.
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