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Rabbit at Rest by John Updike

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Author Biography

Name: John Updike
Birth Date: March 18, 1932
Place of Birth: Shillington, Pennsylvania, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: author, poet

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Biography of John (Hoyer) Updike
19205 words, approx. 64 pages
[This entry was updated by Donald J. Greiner (University of South Carolina) from his entry in DLB 143: American Novelists Since World War II, Third Series, pp. 250-276.] A reader would be hard pressed to name a contemporary author other than John Updike...
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Biography of John (Hoyer) Updike
19166 words, approx. 63.9 pages
A reader would be hard pressed to name a contemporary author other than John Updike whose work is more in tune with the way most Americans live. Unconcerned with apocalypse in his fiction, undeterred by the universal absurdity that threatens to negate th...
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Biography of John (Hoyer) Updike
14259 words, approx. 47.5 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 Rabbit at Rest (1990)--John Updike has exhibited a susta...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Rabbit at Rest Information
339 words, approx. 1 pages
Rabbit at Rest is a 1990 novel by John Updike. It is the fourth and final novel in a series beginning with Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, and Rabbit is Rich. There is also a related 2001 novella, Rabbit Remembered. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for...


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The Economist (US)
Rabbit at Rest.
10/13/1990: 922 words, approx. 3 pages
HERE is the great four-letter man of contemporary American fiction. John Updike's Harry (Rabbit) Angstrom has most of the vices and few of the virtues of suburban America; as husband, father, lover and small businessman he is a manifest failure. Yet hardly any...
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The Nation
Rabbit at Rest. (book reviews)
12/03/1990: 2,660 words, approx. 9 pages
RABBIT'S AT REST I must begin by confessing a fondness for the character of Harry Angstrom that has little to do with literary discrimination. I think of him the way soap opera fans are supposed to regard the characters on the programs...
 


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Rabbit at Rest by John Updike

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