Bibliograph

Rabbit Angstrom, a tetralogy, John Updike ; with an introduction by the author

Type

Label

Rabbit Angstrom, a tetralogy, John Updike ; with an introduction by the author

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Rabbit Angstrom

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

John Updike ; with an introduction by the author

Series statement

Everyman's library, 214

Sub title

a tetralogy

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

Rabbit, run -- Rabbit redux -- Rabbit is rich -- Rabbit at rest

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