John Updike

Rabbit at Rest John Updike

Publisher Marketing: A haunting novel that completes Updike's extraordinary tetralogy chronicling four decades of life in America. In the final novel about ex-basketball player Harry Rabbit Angstrom, the hero has acquired heart trouble, a Florida condo, and a second grandchild while exploring the bleak terrain of late middle age and looking for reasons to live. Review Citations: Library Journal 10/01/1990 (EAN 9780394588155, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/1995 pg. 665 (EAN 9780394588155, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2010 pg. 942 (EAN 9780394588155, Hardcover) Entertainment Weekly 06/27/2008 pg. 98 (EAN 9780449911945, Paperback) Publishers Weekly 08/30/1991 (EAN 9780449219621, Mass Market Paperbound) Contributor Bio:  Updike, John John Updike was born in 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954, and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker, and since 1957 has lived in Massachusetts. He is the author of fifty-odd previous books, including twenty novels and numerous collections of short stories, poems, and criticism. His fiction has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the American Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Award, and the Howells Medal.