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Rabbit, now in his 50s and with a heart condition, is living in a condo in Florida. Nelson and his family come to stay and disaster unfolds. Rabbit has a serious heart attack after a boating accident with his granddaughter and Nelson has been embezzling the family firm to feed his cocaine habit.We are in the final year of Ronald Reagan's anesthetized rule - ''Everything falling apart, airplanes, bridges, eight years... of nobody minding the store, making money out of nothing, running up debt, trusting in God.'' 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 daughter-in-law, Pru, is sending him mixed signals; and his wife, Janice, decides in midlife to return to the world of work. As, through the year 1989, Reagan’s debt-ridden, AIDS-plagued 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."''Rabbit at Rest'' is certainly the most brooding, the most demanding, the most co

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Author

John Updike

Publisher

Ballantine Books

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780394589367

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, American Fiction

Rating

3.96 / 5 (12,344 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13