Rabbit at Rest

novel by Updike

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Rabbit at Rest is a novel by John Updike, published in 1990. It is the fourth and final novel in the series featuring the character Harry Angstrom, often called "Rabbit." The novel follows Rabbit in his later years as he grapples with his life, his health, and his family. Updike's work often explores the complexities of middle-class American life, and the Rabbit series, including Rabbit, Run (1960), Rabbit Redux (1971), and Rabbit Is Rich (1981), provides a decades-long chronicle of this character's journey and the societal changes he experiences.12

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American literature
Realism and metafiction
…from Rabbit, Run [1960] to Rabbit at Rest [1990]), Couples (1968), and Too Far to Go (1979), a sequence of tales about the quiet disintegration of a civilized marriage, a subject Updike revisited in a retrospective work, Villages (2004). In sharp contrast, Nelson Algren (The Man
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…from Rabbit, Run [1960] to Rabbit at Rest [1990]), Couples (1968), and Too Far to Go (1979), a sequence of tales about the quiet disintegration of a civilized marriage, a subject Updike revisited in a retrospective work, Villages (2004). In sharp contrast, Nelson Algren (The Man
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John Updike
…Rabbit Is Rich (1981), and Rabbit at Rest (1990)—the latter two winning Pulitzer Prizes—follow the same character during later periods of his life. Rabbit Remembered (2001) returns to characters from those books in the wake of Rabbit’s death. The Centaur (1963) and Of the Farm (1965) are notable among Updike’s…
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…Rabbit Is Rich (1981), and Rabbit at Rest (1990)—the latter two winning Pulitzer Prizes—follow the same character during later periods of his life. Rabbit Remembered (2001) returns to characters from those books in the wake of Rabbit’s death. The Centaur (1963) and Of the Farm (1965) are notable among Updike’s…
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Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Oscar Hijuelos 1991 Rabbit at Rest John Updike 1992 A Thousand Acres Jane Smiley 1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Stories Robert Olen Butler 1994 The Shipping News E. Annie Proulx
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Oscar Hijuelos 1991 Rabbit at Rest John Updike 1992 A Thousand Acres Jane Smiley 1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Stories Robert Olen Butler 1994 The Shipping News E. Annie Proulx
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