{"product_id":"rabbit-angstrom-isbn-9780679444596","title":"Rabbit Angstrom","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe four novels in the acclaimed Rabbit series—including the Pulitzer Prize winners \u003ci\u003eRabbit is Rich\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRabbit at Rest\u003c\/i\u003e—brought together in a single volume, from one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen we first met him in \u003ci\u003eRabbit, Run\u003c\/i\u003e (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. 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: \u003ci\u003eRabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit is Rich; \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Rabbit at Rest.\u003c\/i\u003eFROM THE INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR written especially for this edition:\u003cbr\u003e“The character  of Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom was for me a way in-a ticket to the America all around  me … [These four related novels] became a kind of running report on the state of  my hero and his nation . . . A some point between the second and third of the series,  I began to visualize four completed novels that might together make a single coherent  volume, a mega-novel. Now, thanks to Everyman's Library, this volume exists, titled,  as I had long hoped, with the name of the protagonist, an everyman who, like all  men, was unique and mortal.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Taken together, this quartet of novels has given  its readers a wonderfully vivid portrait of one Harry (Rabbit) Angstrom . . . The  books have also created a Kodachrome-sharp picture of American life . . . from the  somnolent 50s . . . into the uncertainties of the 80s.”\u003cbr\u003e—THE NEW YORK TIMES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The  being that most illuminates the Rabbit quartet is not finally Harry Angstrom himself  but the world through which he moves in his slow downward slide, meticulously recorded  by one of the most gifted American realists . . . The Rabbit novels, for all their  grittiness, constitute John Updike's surpassingly eloquent valentine to his country.”\u003cbr\u003e—Joyce Carol Oates, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWJOHN UPDIKE was the author of more than sixty books, eight of them collections of poetry. His novels, including \u003ci\u003eThe Centaur, Rabbit Is Rich, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eRabbit at Rest, \u003c\/i\u003ewon the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in 2009.","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303921864933,"sku":"NP9780679444596","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679444596.jpg?v=1767735322","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/rabbit-angstrom-isbn-9780679444596","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}