![]() ![]() ![]() He also has to deal with the indecision and irresponsibility of Nelson, his son, who is a student at Kent State University. Harry has become somewhat enamored of a country-club friend's young wife. Having achieved a lifestyle that would have embarrassed his working-class parents, Harry is not greedy, but neither is he ever quite satisfied. He is indeed rich, but Harry's persistent problems - his wife's drinking, his troubled son's schemes, his libido, and spectres from his past - complicate life. Harry and Janice, his wife of twenty-two years, live comfortably, having inherited her late father's Toyota dealership. ![]() This third novel of Updike's Rabbit series examines the life of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, a one-time high school basketball star, who has reached a paunchy middle-age without relocating from Brewer, Pennsylvania, the poor, fictional city of his birth. Rabbit Is Rich was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1982. There is also a related 2001 novella, Rabbit Remembered. It is the third novel of the four-part series which begins with Rabbit, Run and Rabbit Redux, and concludes with Rabbit At Rest. Rabbit Is Rich is a 1981 novel by John Updike. ![]()
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