- Fiction, Middle class men, Middle class men in fiction, Harry Angstrom (Fictitious character)
It's 1979 and Rabbit is no longer running. He's walking, and beginning to get out of breath. That's OK, though - it gives him the chance to enjoy the wealth that comes with middle age.
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Classical in form, contemplative, earnest and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- John Updike
- First published
- 1981
- Pages
- 467
- Publisher
- Distributed by Random House, Knopf, Tandem Library
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- German, cze, Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9783499123917
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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.”
John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as poetry, art and literary criticism and children's books during his career. Hundreds of his stories, reviews, and poems appeared in *The New Yorker* starting in 1954. He also wrote regularly for *The New York Review of Books.* His most famous work is his "Rabbit" series, which chronicles the life of the middle-class everyman Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom over the course of several decades,
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