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Rabbit at Rest

John Updike · 1990 CE · Novel · Modern / American · Contemporary

Fifty-five, overweight and half-retired to a Florida condominium, Harry Angstrom eats his way through the winter while his son runs the dealership into the ground and his granddaughter learns to swim. A chest pain out on the water and a discovery at home send him north again to a town that has stopped needing him. The last of the four Rabbit books won a second Pulitzer and closes the fullest American portrait of an ordinary life.

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