A haunting novel that completes Updike\'s extraordinary tetralogy chronicling four decades of life in America.
As, through the year of 1989, Reagan\'s debt-ridden, AIDS-plagued America yields to that of the first George Bush, Rabbit explores the bleak terrain of late middle age, looking for reasons to live and opportunities to make peace with a remorselessly accumulating past..
His son, Nelson, is behaving erratically; his daughter-in-law, Pru, is sending him mixed signals; and his wife, Janice, decides in midlife to return to the world of work.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Howells Medal, and the National Book Critics Circle Award In John Updike\'s fourth and final novel about Harry Rabbit Angstrom, the hero has acquired a Florida condo, a second grandchild, and a troubled, overworked heart.
In the final novel about ex-basketball player Harry Rabbit Angstrom, the hero has acquired heart trouble, a Florida condo, and a second grandchild while exploring the bleak terrain of late middle age and looking for reasons to live.
A haunting novel that completes Updike\'s extraordinary tetralogy chronicling four decades of life in America
