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John Updike : novels 1986-1990 / Christopher Carduff, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Updike, John, author.
- Series:
- Library of America ; 354.
- The Library of America ; 354
- Standardized Title:
- Novels. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Adultery--Fiction.
- Adultery.
- Families--Fiction.
- Families.
- Exiles--Fiction.
- Exiles.
- God--Proof--Fiction.
- God.
- College teachers--Fiction.
- College teachers.
- Angstrom, Harry (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
- Angstrom, Harry (Fictitious character).
- Middle class men--Fiction.
- Middle class men.
- Retirement--Fiction.
- Retirement.
- Psychological fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 854 pages ; 21 cm
- Other Title:
- Updike : novels 1986-1990
- Novels 1986-1990
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : The Library of America, [2022]
- Summary:
- "This volume in Library of America's John Updike edition presents two essential novels by the master stylist of postwar American fiction. Roger's Version (1986) stakes out ground that encompasses Updike's recurring themes of sex, desire, and adultery as well as an emerging interest in the cosmic implications of contemporary scientific breakthroughs. Widely hailed upon publication as a masterpiece, awarded a Pulitzer and a National Book Critics Circle prize, Rabbit at Rest (1990) wraps up the saga of Updike's most enduring protagonist and concludes his 'surpassingly eloquent elegy for his country,' in the words of Joyce Carol Oates"-- Provided by publisher.
- Roger's version (1986): Roger Lambert, a middle-aged professor of divinity, is stuck in his office by Dale Kohler, a young computer scientist who believes that technical advances in computing shows evidence of God's existence. Then a theological-scientific debate ensues, and Roger employs wicked strategies to disembarrass Dale of his faith. But Dale's passion turns to his erotic attraction to Esther, Roger's much younger wife, that takes her away from him and into Dale's bed. The novel, a majestic allegory of faith and reason, ends as a black comedy of revenge, for this is Roger's side of the triangle described by Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter--made new for a disbelieving age.
- Rabbit at rest (1990): Now in his mid-fifties, ex-basketball player Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom has acquired heart trouble and has settled into leisured obsolescence, dividing his time between Pennsylvania and the Valhalla Village retirement community in Florida. But alongside his golfing, junk-food consumption, and other forms of ease there loom unavoidable markers of Rabbit's human fragility and his mortality.
- Contents:
- Roger's version
- Rabbit at rest.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Rabbit at rest: The National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, 1990
- Rabbit at rest: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1991
- Contains:
- Container of: Updike, John. Roger's version.
- Container of: Updike, John. Rabbit at rest.
- ISBN:
- 9781598537178
- 1598537172
- OCLC:
- 1255595367
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