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“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.
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Release date
August 26, 2010 -
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Kindle Book
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9780307744104
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EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9780307744104
- File size: 2205 KB
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Languages
- English
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Levels
- ATOS Level: 6.8
- Lexile® Measure: 1120
- Interest Level: 9-12(UG)
- Text Difficulty: 5
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Reviews
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July 29, 1991
Harry ``Rabbit'' Angstrom, morbidly depressed, overweight and living with wife Janice in a Florida retirement community, recovers from a heart attack and is led astray by his libido one last time. ``Updike is razor-sharp and mordantly funny,'' said PW. ``If this novel is in some respects an elegy to Rabbit's bewildered existence, it is also a poignant, humorous, instructive guidebook to the aborted American dream.'' The book took a Pulitzer Prize.
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