Rabbit is rich / John Updike.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Updike, John.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1-3)

Updike, John (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 2 & 3)

Barnett, Gene (inscription) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 3)

Physical Description:

467 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1981.

Summary:

The hero of John Updike's Rabbit, Run (1960), ten years after the hectic events described in Rabbit Redux (1971), has come to enjoy considerable prosperity as Chief Sales Representative of Springer Motors, a Toyota agency in Brewer, Pennsylvania. The time is 1979: Skylab is falling, gas lines are lengthening, the President collapses while running in a marathon, and double-digit inflation coincides with a deflation of national confidence. Nevertheless, Harry Angstrom feels in good shape, ready to enjoy life at last -- until his son, Nelson, returns from the West, and the image of an old love pays a visit to his lot. New characters and old populate these scenes from Rabbit's middle age, as he continues to pursue, in his erratic fashion, the rainbow of happiness.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1-3 have dustjacket retained.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 signed by the author.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 3 has "News from Alfred A. Knopf" and promotional photograph of author laid in at front.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 3 inscribed "for Gene Barnett who got me to Teaneck where I had a good time many thanks John Updike" on front flyleaf.

ISBN:

0394520874 :

OCLC:

7283732