Rabbit At Rest

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize the Howells Medal and the National Book Critics Circle Award In John Updike’s fourth and final novel about Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom the hero has acquired a Florida condo a second grandchild and a troubled overworked heart. His son Nelson is behaving erratically his daughterinlaw Pru is sending him mixed signals and his wife Janice decides in midlife to return to the world of work. As through the year of 1989 Reagan’s debtridden AIDSplagued America yields to that of the first George Bush Rabbit explores the bleak terrain of late middle age looking for reasons to live and opportunities to make peace with a remorselessly accumulating past.