Rabbit Angstrom Series by John Updike, Джон Ъпдайк, Юлиана Касабова, Дамян Дамянов

3.81 · 144 ratings
  • Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom #1)
    #1

    Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom #1)

    John Updike, Джон Ъпдайк, Юлиана Касабова, Дамян Дамянов

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings · published 1960

    Rabbit, Run is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his—or any other—generation. Its hero is Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, a onetime high-school basketball star who on an impulse deserts his wife and son. He is twenty-six years old, a man-child caught in a struggle between instinct and thought, self and society, sexual gratification and family duty—even, in a sense, human hard-heartedness and divine Grace... more

  • Rabbit Redux (Rabbit Angstrom #2)
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    Rabbit Redux (Rabbit Angstrom #2)

    John Updike

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 1971

    In this sequel to Rabbit, Run, John Updike resumes the spiritual quest of his anxious Everyman, Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom. Ten years have passed; the impulsive former athlete has become a paunchy thirty-six-year-old conservative, and Eisenhower’s becalmed America has become 1969’s lurid turmoil of technology, fantasy, drugs, and violence... more

  • Rabbit Is Rich (Rabbit Angstrom #3)
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    Rabbit Is Rich (Rabbit Angstrom #3)

    John Updike

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 1981

    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award  The hero of John Updike’s Rabbit, Run, ten years after the events of Rabbit Redux, has come to enjoy considerable prosperity as the chief sales representative of Springer Motors, a Toyota agency in Brewer, Pennsylvania. The time is 1979: Skylab is falling, gas lines are lengthening, and double-digit inflation coincides with a deflation of national self-confidence... more

  • Rabbit Novels: Rabbit, Run and Rabbit Redux (Rabbit Angstrom #1-3)
    #1-3

    Rabbit Novels: Rabbit, Run and Rabbit Redux (Rabbit Angstrom #1-3)

    John Updike

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 1981

    The first and second novels in John Updike's acclaimed quartet of Rabbit books -- now in one marvelous volume. RABBIT, RUN"Brilliant and poignant . . . By his compassion, clarity of insight, and crystal-bright prose, [Updike] makes Rabbit's sorrow his and out own.The Washington Post"Precise, graceful, stunning, he is an athlete of words and images. He is also an impeccable observer of thoughts and feelings... more

  • Rabbit at Rest (Rabbit Angstrom #4)
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    Rabbit at Rest (Rabbit Angstrom #4)

    John Updike

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 1990

    Winner of the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In John Updike's fourth and final novel about ex-basketball player Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, the hero has acquired heart trouble, a Florida condo, and a second grandchild. His son and daughter-in-law are acting erratically, his wife Janice wants to work, and Rabbit is searching his soul, looking for reasons to live.

  • Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels (Rabbit Angstrom #1-4)
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    Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels (Rabbit Angstrom #1-4)

    John Updike

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 1994

    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... more

  • Licks of Love: Short Stories and a Sequel, "Rabbit Remembered" (Rabbit Angstrom #6)
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    Licks of Love: Short Stories and a Sequel, "Rabbit Remembered" (Rabbit Angstrom #6)

    John Updike

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 2000

    In this brilliant late-career collection, John Updike revisits many of the locales of his early fiction: the small-town Pennsylvania of Olinger Stories, the sandstone farmhouse of Of the Farm, the exurban New England of Couples and Marry Me, and Henry Bech’s Manhattan of artistic ambition and taunting glamour. To a dozen short stories spanning the American Century, the author has added a novella-length coda to his quartet of novels about Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom... more

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