Traditional Chinese edition of Rabbit is Rich, third of four-book novel about the life of Rabbit Angstrom by John Updike. The series spans the four decades after WWII and tells the story of America during those forty years through the protagonist. In Traditional Chinese. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.
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Traditional Chinese edition of Rabbit is Rich, third of four-book novel about the life of Rabbit Angstrom by John Updike. The series spans the four decades after WWII and tells the story of America during those forty years through the protagonist. In Traditional Chinese. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Signed by Author and Limited to #287 of 350 copies. First Edition. F/NF. Hardcover, gray cloth with gilt tooled titles, DJ, 467 pp, slipcase in NF condition, faint edgewear to DJ with light wear to slipcase, else a beautiful, clean and crisp copy. DJ is protected in a cover.
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Fine in Fine jacket. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper and fine slipcase. One of 250 numbered copies Signed by the author. Winner of both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1982. An as new copy.
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Used; Like New. Distributed In The U.S. By Sterling Pub. Co. Used; Like New. Knopf 1981 Hardcover First Edition. SIGNED by author on limitations page. This book is one of 350 signed, numbered copies, this being number 255. National Book Award winner and Pulitzer Prize winner. Book is Near Fine in a Fine dust jacket (with a BroDart cover) and a Near Fine slipcase. Book Condition: Near Fine Jacket Condition: Fine. 1981. MASS MARKET PAPERBACK.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 0394520475. Remainder mark, bottom textblock. Owner bookplate to front free-endpaper. Binding tight and straight, inner pages clean and unmarked. Dust Jacket is price-intact, clean with very mild shelfwear.; 7.9 X 5.5 X 1.7 inches.
Rabbit Angstrom, the protagonist of John Updike's Rabbit quartet, is repellent in his human frailties--lust, nostalgia, resentment, evasion, abdication of adult responsibility--and can be said to mirror his own country.
Rabbit is Rich finds Harry Angstrom newly rich with his inheritance of his father-in-law's Toyota dealership amid the oil crisis of the 1970s. He and his wife belong to a country club, live with Janice's mother, and their son Nelson who arrives with his pregnant wife-to-be Pru. There is a Caribbean idyll in which wives are swapped, a visit to an old lover Ruth, now gone to seed, and a grandchild.
From these simple plot elements, the author inhabits the fully realized eponymous character, whose perspective dominates the novel, with epic amplitude and scope. Updike's baroque style is best served by being filtered through Rabbit's consciousness in all its crudity. The male gaze is relentless. Yet Updike has created a character who, to me, is quintessentially American in his careless racial epithets, his endless sexualizing of women, his bewildered homophobia, his habitual dwelling in pastness. He is a man who is "a failed boy."
The author's manipulation of time in the novel is masterful and seemingly without effort. It is fair to say that the interiority of the women characters is given short shrift, but these after all are Rabbit's books.
Updike's depiction of marriage, sex, intergenerational strife, aging and American working lives is immensely compelling and persuasive. Paradoxically, the limitations of Rabbit's point of view opens up the author's vision of America over a four-decade span in the four novels.
What major writer would allow his main character to engage in a reverie about the disco queen Donna Summer, as Updike does here? The absorption of Seventies pop culture is quite remarkable. If Rabbit's attitudes are often provincial, sour, constricted and jaundiced, at the same time the novel has a marvelous fullness and a shocking candor, especially about sex.
In Rabbit is Rich, Harry Angstrom is Huck Finn not quite grown, with a wife, a son he resents, and a granddaughter, but with no more territory to light out to. It's all closed off now, and he simply awaits another "nail in the coffin." This is a superb novel.
