Rabbit at Rest Summary
John Updike

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Rabbit at Rest Summary

Rabbit at Rest is the fourth and final novel in Updike's series on the adventures and fate of Harry Angstrom. By focusing on the life of an average American character, Updike has assembled a portrait of American culture and its disintegration that now spans more than three decades. The latest episode includes the issues of drug addiction, business corruption, the AIDS epidemic, the selling of America to foreign investors...

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John Updike Biographies (8)

John (Hoyer) Updike

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

John (Hoyer) Updike

19,247 words, approx. 65 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 ... Read more

John (Hoyer) Updike

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

John (Hoyer) Updike

19,243 words, approx. 65 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 ... Read more

John Updike

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

John Updike

6,086 words, approx. 21 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," wrote Donald J. Greiner in Dictionary of Literary Bio... Read more

John Updike

13,801 words, approx. 47 pages

Biography EssayA reader would be hard pressed to name a contemporary author other than John Updike who is more in tune with the way most Americans live. Unconcerned with apocalypse in his fiction, und... Read more

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