Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels

0/5 ( ratings)

When we first met him in Rabbit, Run , the book that established John Updike as a major novelist, Harry 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.

Language: English

Pages: 1520

Format: Hardcover

Release: October 17, 1994

ISBN 13: 9780679444596

Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels

0/5 ( ratings)

When we first met him in Rabbit, Run , the book that established John Updike as a major novelist, Harry 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.

Language: English

Pages: 1520

Format: Hardcover

Release: October 17, 1994

ISBN 13: 9780679444596

More books from John Updike

Rabbit, Run

3.5/5 ( ratings)

The Power and the Glory

3.9/5 ( ratings)

The Complete Stories

4.3/5 ( ratings)

The House of God

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Rabbit Is Rich

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Rabbit at Rest

3.9/5 ( ratings)

The Witches of Eastwick

3.2/5 ( ratings)

Rabbit Redux

3.8/5 ( ratings)

The Diaries of Adam and Eve

Couples

3.5/5 ( ratings)

The Centaur

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Terrorist

3.1/5 ( ratings)

The Twelve Terrors of Christmas

4.2/5 ( ratings)

The Best American Short Stories of the Century

4.1/5 ( ratings)

The Widows of Eastwick

2.9/5 ( ratings)

In the Beauty of the Lilies

3.7/5 ( ratings)

The Early Stories, 1953-1975

4.1/5 ( ratings)

A Month of Sundays

3.4/5 ( ratings)

A Child's Calendar

The Eighth Day

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?