Rabbit At Rest - Limited Edition

Updike, John

ISBN 10: 0394588150 / ISBN 13: 9780394588155

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, USA, 1990

About this Item

DESCRIPTION:

Signed limited first edition of John Updike?s Rabbit at Rest, published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1990. One of 350 specially printed, specially bound, signed and numbered copies, this example being No. 109, signed by Updike on the limitation page. Octavo. Black cloth spine with red spine label lettered in gilt, lavender patterned paper-covered boards, and publisher?s matching slipcase. A handsome copy of the fourth and final Rabbit Angstrom novel, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The copyright page bears the limited edition ISBN, distinguishing this issue from the standard trade edition.

CONDITION:

Book: Fine. Clean, bright, and square, with firm binding, fresh, unmarked pages, and an appealing signed limitation leaf. Preserve in Mylar film.

Slipcase: Very Good minus. Rubbing and scuffing to panels, with wear at edges, corners, and extremities; still structurally sound and fully serviceable.

Seller Inventory # B-FICT-JUPDIKE-03

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rabbit At Rest - Limited Edition
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, USA
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394588150
• ISBN 13: 9780394588155
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition, Limited Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dimensions: 4.83W x 14.22H x 20.57D centimeters 4.83 centimeters width by 14.22 centimeters height by 20.57 centimeters depth
• Weight: 0.68 kilograms
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Americana
  • Signed; Inscribed
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

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.

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.