Rabbit Redux

Product details:
Author: John Updike
Publisher: Alfred A.‎ Knopf, INC.
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 12, 1971
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Binding: Hardback
Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition
Dust Cover: Included; Good Condition
Print length ‏ : ‎ 416 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 039447273X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0394472737
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.35 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.7 x 1.4 x 8.22 inches
Book 2 of 5 ‏ : ‎ Rabbit

The assumptions and obsessions that control our daily lives are explored in tantalizing detail by master novelist John Updike in this wise, witty, and sexy story. Harry Angstrom--known to all as Rabbit, one of America's most famous literary characters--finds his dreary life shattered by the infidelity of his wife, Janice. How he resolves or further complicates his problems makes for a novel of the first order.

Editorial Reviews:

“A masterpiece . . . Updike owns a rare verbal genius, a gifted intelligence and a sense of tragedy made bearable by wit.”—Time

“An awesomely accomplished writer . . . For God’s sake, read the book. It may even—will probably change your life.”—Anatole Broyard

“A superb performance, all grace and dazzle . . . a brilliant portrait of middle America.”—Life

About The Author: John Updike
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 lived in Massachusetts. He was the father of four children and the author of more than fifty books, including collections of short stories, poems, essays, and criticism. His novels won the Pulitzer Prize (twice), the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Award, and the Howells Medal. A previous collection of essays, Hugging the Shore, received the 1983 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. John Updike died on January 27, 2009, at the age of 76.