Rabbit Is Rich Summary
John Updike

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Rabbit Is Rich Summary

Rabbit is Rich picks up the story begun in Updike's Rabbit Run (1961) and continued in Rabbit Redux (1971), of Harry Angstrom, Rabbit, in his mid-forties in the late 1970's. He is the Sales Manager and part owner of Springer Motors Toyota, in the fictional town of Brewer, PA. Harry is at the lot when two young people come in looking for a car. Harry takes them for a test drive and gets...

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John Updike Biographies (8)

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5,208 words, approx. 18 pages

During his college years John Updike was a graphic artist, especially adept as a cartoonist and draftsman, and this very literal sense of style has been the most distinguishing factor in his novels an... Read more

John (Hoyer) Updike

3,248 words, approx. 11 pages

John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania. Following graduation (summa cum laude) in 1954 from Harvard University, where he was an English major and editor of the Harvard Lampoon, he studied f... Read more

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19,247 words, approx. 65 pages

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14,278 words, approx. 48 pages

While his stature as a short-story writer may be perpetually overshadowed by the novelistic achievements of the Rabbit tetralogy--Rabbit, Run (1960), Rabbit Redux (1971), Rabbit Is Rich (1981), and Ra... Read more

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1,579 words, approx. 6 pages

Author John Updike (born 1932) mirrored his America in poems, short stories, essays, and novels, especially the four-volume "Rabbit" series.John Updike was born on March 18, 1932, in Shillington, Penn... Read more

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Essays & Analysis (8)

Critical Essay by Alfred Kazin

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Rabbit Is Rich

2,174 words, approx. 8 pages

Rabbit is Rich is the third novel in the series by John Updike featuring a central character, Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom. Harry is now in his mid-forties, and the novel is set in the late 1970's in Penn... Read more

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