![]() ![]() Unable to stop nibbling corn chips, macadamia nuts and other junk food, Rabbit nearly dies after a heart attack while sunfishing with his nine-year-old granddaughter, Judy. Harry, nearly 40 years after his glory days as a high school basketball star in a mid-sized Pennsylvania city, has retired with Janice, his wife of 33 years, to sunny Florida during the cold months, where Harry is depressed, dangerously overweight and desperate for reasons to keep on living. Rabbit at Rest focuses on the years 1988–89. This novel is part of the series that follows the life of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom from 1960 to 1990. Rabbit at Rest won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1991, the second "Rabbit" novel to garner that award. A related novella, Rabbit Remembered, was published in 2001. It is the fourth and final novel in a tetralogy, succeeding Rabbit, Run Rabbit Redux and Rabbit Is Rich. ![]() ![]() Rabbit at Rest is a 1990 novel by John Updike. ![]()
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