Rabbit Angstrom: A Tetralogy (Everyman's Library, No. 214)

Updike, John

ISBN 10: 0679444599 / ISBN 13: 9780679444596

Published by Everyman's Library, 1995

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1st printing, withdrawn library,, sanded off stamps on two edges, sticker on endpaper.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rabbit Angstrom: A Tetralogy (Everyman's Library, No. 214)
• Publisher: Everyman's Library
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679444599
• ISBN 13: 9780679444596
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Dimensions: 13.72W x 20.96H x 5.23D centimeters 13.72 centimeters width by 20.96 centimeters height by 5.23 centimeters depth
• Weight: 0.463 pounds

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Synopsis

The four novels in the acclaimed Rabbit series—including the Pulitzer Prize winners Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit at Rest—brought together in a single volume, from one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century.

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.

About the Author

JOHN UPDIKE was the author of more than sixty books, eight of them collections of poetry. His novels, including The Centaur, Rabbit Is Rich, and Rabbit at Rest, won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in 2009.