Product Description

Rabbit Angstron has inherited his father-in-law's business as a dealer in new and secondhand cars, and greatly enjoys his new status as owner of a business and member of the golf club. Unfortunately, his son Nelson has dropped out of college - he has made a girl pregnant. Rabbit feels enraged.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #346281 in Books
• Published on: 1997-10-30
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 480 pages

Customer Reviews

A slow start, but what a finish!
Here we are back with Rabbit, and I found it a slow start after Rabbit Redux. But it all feels right - Rabbit has taken over his father-in-law's business, has moved back in with his wife and is living with his mother-in-law.

As can be expected, Rabbit is not happy, and his realisation that Nelson (his son) is encroaching on his "territory" makes him angry. A mid-life crisis? No, Rabbit has had too many crises; this is just Rabbit kicking against mortality.

His golf club cronies provide light relief, but the set piece involves them on a Caribbean vacation and more than justifies the slowness of the start. As ever, Updike's sensuous use of prose is beautiful, over-rich but it works for me.

Rabbit has changed
I read the first Rabbit novel when it was published in the UK, in the 1960s I believe.

I very much enjoyed that novel but found that Rabbit and I had grown apart over the years.

An insight into middle America and the changing values in society here and there.