Rabbit Redux
Rabbit Redux

Author: John Updike

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2010-08-26

Total Pages: 451

ISBN-13: 0307744086

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In this sequel to Rabbit, Run, John Updike resumes the spiritual quest of his anxious Everyman, Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom. Ten years have passed; the impulsive former athlete has become a paunchy thirty-six-year-old conservative, and Eisenhower’s becalmed America has become 1969’s lurid turmoil of technology, fantasy, drugs, and violence. Rabbit is abandoned by his family, his home invaded by a runaway and a radical, his past reduced to a ruined inner landscape; still he clings to semblances of decency and responsibility, and yearns to belong and to believe.

Rabbit Redux
Rabbit Redux

Author: John Updike

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2006-06

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 0141188545

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Into the life of Harry Angstrom come two fully paid-up members of the younger generation. The year is 1969 and Harry knows that if he won't change willingly, changes will be foisted upon him. His job is under threat and his marriage is on shaky ground.

Rabbit Redux
Rabbit Redux

Author: John Updike

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2006-06-01

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 0141915161

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It's 1969, and the times are changing. America is about to land a man on the moon, the Vietnamese war is in full swing, and racial tension is on the rise. Things just aren't as simple as they used to be - at least, not for Rabbit Angstrom. His wife has left him with his teenage son, his job is under threat and his mother is dying. Suddenly, into his confused life - and home - comes Jill, an eighteen-year-old runaway who becomes his lover. But when she invites her friend to stay, a young black radical named Skeeter, the pair's fragile harmony soon begins to fail ...

Rabbit at Rest
Rabbit at Rest

Author: John Updike

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2010-08-26

Total Pages: 609

ISBN-13: 0307744108

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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • One of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century brings back ex-basketball player Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, the late middle-aged hero of Rabbit, Run, who has acquired heart trouble, a Florida condo, and a second grandchild, and is looking for reasons to live. “Brilliant . . . the best novel about America to come out of America for a very, very long time.”—The Washington Post Book World Rabbit’s son, Nelson, is behaving erratically; his daughter-in-law, Pru, is sending out mixed signals; and his wife, Janice, decides in midlife to become a working girl. As, through the winter, spring, and summer of 1989, Reagan's debt-ridden, AIDS-plagued America yields to that of George Bush, Rabbit explores the bleak terrain of late middle age, looking for reasons to live. The geographical locale is divided between Brewer, in southestern Pennyslvania, and Deleon, in southwestern Florida.

Rabbit, run ; Rabbit redux
Rabbit, run ; Rabbit redux

Author: John Updike

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 664

ISBN-13:

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"The first and second novels in John Updike's acclaimed quartet of Rabbit books-now in one marvelous volume. " RABBIT, RUN "Brilliant and poignant . . . By his compassion, clarity of insight, and crystal-bright prose, [Updike] makes Rabbit's sorrow his and out own." -"The Washington Post ""Precise, graceful, stunning, he is an athlete of words and images. He is also an impeccable observer of thoughts and feelings." -"The Village Voice " RABBIT REDUX " 'Great in love, in art, boldness, freedom, wisdom, kindness, exceedingly rich in intelligence, wit, imagination, and feeling-a great and beautiful thing . . .' these hyperboles (quoted from a letter written long ago by Thomas Mann) come to mind after reading John Updike's "Rabbit Redux." -The New York Times Book Review" " ""Updike owns a rare verbal genius, a gifted intelligence and a sense of tragedy made bearable by wit. . . . A masterpiece." -"Time"

Rabbit is rich ; Rabbit at rest
Rabbit is rich ; Rabbit at rest

Author: John Updike

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 974

ISBN-13:

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The third and fourth novel in John Updike’s acclaimed quartet of Rabbit books–now in one marvelous volume. RABBIT IS RICH Winner of the American Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award “Dazzlingly reaffirms Updike’s place as master chronicler of the spiritual maladies and very earthly pleasure of the Middle-American male.” –Vogue “A splendid achievement!” –The New York Times RABBIT AT REST Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award “Brilliant . . . It must be read. It is the best novel about America to come out of America for a very, very long time.” –The Washington Post Book World “Powerful . . . John Updike with his precision’s prose and his intimately attentive yet cold eye is a master.” –The New York Times Book Review

Licks of Love
Licks of Love

Author: John Updike

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2007-12-18

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 0307415848

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In this brilliant late-career collection, John Updike revisits many of the locales of his early fiction: the small-town Pennsylvania of Olinger Stories, the sandstone farmhouse of Of the Farm, the exurban New England of Couples and Marry Me, and Henry Bech’s Manhattan of artistic ambition and taunting glamour. To a dozen short stories spanning the American Century, the author has added a novella-length coda to his quartet of novels about Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom. Several strands of the Rabbit saga come together here as, during the fall and winter holidays of 1999, Harry’s survivors fitfully entertain his memory while pursuing their own happiness up to the edge of a new millennium. Love makes Updike’s fictional world go round—married love, filial love, feathery licks of erotic love, and love for the domestic particulars of Middle American life.

A Rabbit Omnibus
A Rabbit Omnibus

Author: John Updike

Publisher:

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 700

ISBN-13: 9780140158090

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The trilogy comprises of Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux and Rabbit is Rich. It is intended as an amusing, sympathetic study of a man, Rabbit Angstron, putting up a fight against the inevitable.

Rabbit Angstrom
Rabbit Angstrom

Author: John Updike

Publisher: Everyman's Library

Published: 1995-10-17

Total Pages: 1562

ISBN-13: 0679444599

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When we first met him in Rabbit, Run (1960), the book that established John Updike as a major novelist, Harry (Rabbit) Angstrom is playing basketball with some boys in an alley in Pennsylvania during the tail end of the Eisenhower era, reliving for a moment his past as a star high school athlete. Athleticism of a different sort is on display throughout these four magnificent novels—the athleticism of an imagination possessed of the ability to lay bare, with a seemingly effortless animal grace, the enchantments and disenchantments of life. Updike revisited his hero toward the end of each of the following decades in the second half of this American century; and in each of the subsequent novels, as Rabbit, his wife, Janice, his son, Nelson, and the people around them grow, these characters take on the lineaments of our common existence. In prose that is one of the glories of contemporary literature, Updike has chronicled the frustrations and ambiguous triumphs, the longuers, the loves and frenzies, the betrayals and reconciliations of our era. He has given us our representative American story. This Rabbit Angstrom volume is composed of the following novels: Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit is Rich; and Rabbit at Rest.

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

Author: Kate DiCamillo

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 076364367X

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Edward Tulane, a cold-hearted and proud toy rabbit, loves only himself until he is separated from the little girl who adores him and travels across the country, acquiring new owners and listening to their hopes, dreams, and histories. Jr Lib Guild. Teacher's Guide available. Reprint.