Rabbit Is Rich

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name = Rabbit is Rich
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image_caption = First edition cover
author = John Updike
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Novel
publisher = Alfred A. Knopf
release_date = September 12, 1981
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media_type = Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
pages = 480 pp
isbn = ISBN 0394520874
preceded_by = Rabbit Redux
followed_by = Rabbit At Rest

"Rabbit Is Rich" is a 1981 novel by John Updike. It is the third novel in the four-part series which begins with "Rabbit, Run" and "Rabbit Redux", and concludes with "Rabbit At Rest". There is also a related 2001 novella, "Rabbit Remembered". "Rabbit Is Rich" was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1982.

Plot summary

This third novel in Updike's "Rabbit" series finds Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, a one-time high school basketball star, has reached a paunchy middle-age without straying from Brewer, Pennsylvania, the downtrodden, fictional city of his birth. Harry and Janice, his wife of twenty-two years, live comfortably, having inherited her late father's Toyota dealership. He is indeed rich, but Harry's persistent problems, including his wife's drinking, his troubled son's schemes, his libido, and spectres from his past, complicate life. Having achieved a lifestyle that would have embarrassed his working-class parents, Harry is not greedy, but neither is he ever quite satisfied. Harry nurses a crush on a country-club friend's young wife, dangerously seeking approval. Nevertheless he is unable to read the warning signs.

External links

* [http://www.nytimes.com/1981/09/22/books/updike-rabbitrich.html NY Times Review]