Updike revisited his hero toward the end of each of the following decades in the second half of this American century and in each of the subsequent novels, as Rabbit, his wife, Janice, his son, Nelson, and the people around them grow, these characters take on the lineaments of our common existence. Athleticism of a different sort is on display throughout these four magnificent novels-the athleticism of an imagination possessed of the ability to lay bare, with a seemingly effortless animal grace, the enchantments and disenchantments of life. When we first met him in Rabbit, Run (1960), the book that established John Updike as a major novelist, Harry (Rabbit) Angstrom is playing basketball with some boys in an alley in Pennsylvania during the tail end of the Eisenhower era, reliving for a moment his past as a star high school athlete. Description The four novels in the acclaimed Rabbit series-including the Pulitzer Prize winners Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit at Rest-brought together in a single volume, from one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century.
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