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By JOSH GETLIN. Nov. 4, 1990 12 AM PT. TIMES STAFF WRITER. NEW YORK — Rabbit is dead, but John Updike swears it was a mercy killing. After all, if a famous literary character wants to load up on...
John Updike leaves behind novels, short stories, criticism and drama – and, in Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, one of the richest, fullest creations in American 20th-century fiction. Xan Brooks. Tue...
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I n 1990, when Rabbit at Rest was published to broad acclaim, ending John Updike’s magisterial Rabbit Angstrom quartet, Updike was arguably the most admired writer in the United States and also its most characteristically American. Thirty years later, he is largely an object of resentment.
Despite his multiplying difficulties, Rabbit manages to take solace in the presence of Judy, whose confidence and athleticism remind him of his high-school glory days. He is less attached to his four-year-old grandson Roy, who seems wary and fearful of Rabbit, much like Nelson.
- John Updike
- 1990
In 1990, he published the last Rabbit novel, Rabbit at Rest, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Over 500 pages long, the novel is among Updike's most celebrated.
Jan 28, 2009 · John Updike, the kaleidoscopically gifted writer whose quartet of Rabbit novels highlighted a body of fiction, verse, essays and criticism so vast, protean and lyrical as to place him in the...
Jan 28, 2009 · Rabbit at Rest: Pulitzer Prize winner and sometime scientistic versifier John Updike dead. By Aaron Fagan on January 28, 2009. John Updike, a virtuosic writer of fiction, verse, essays and...
