Rabbit Is Rich
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Rabbit Is Rich is a 1981 novel by John Updike. It is the third novel in the four-part series which begins with Rabbit, Run and Rabbit Redux, and concluded with Rabbit At Rest. There is also a related 2001 novella, Rabbit Remembered. Rabbit Is Rich was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1982.
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Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, a one-time high school basketball star, has reached a paunchy middle-age without straying from Brewer, PA, the downtrodden, fictional city of his birth. This third entry in Updike's Rabbit series finds Harry and his wife of twenty-two years living comfortably, having inherited her late father's Toyota dealership. He is indeed rich, but Harry's persistent nemeses--his wife's drinking, his lazy son's schemes, his libido, and spectres from his past--give him a real run for his money in this Pulitzer Prize winning rumination on guilt, sex, death, and America. Having achieved a lifestyle that would have embarrassed his working-class parents, Harry is not greedy, but neither is he ever quite satisfied. Harry nurses a crush on a country-club friend's young wife, seeking approval like a rabbit nibbling at a forbidden garden; he is not voracious, but nevertheless he is unable to read the warning signs.
| Preceded by: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole |
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1982 |
Succeeded by: The Color Purple by Alice Walker |
