Rabbit Is Rich

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Rabbit is Rich
First edition cover
Author	John Updike
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Novel
Publisher	Alfred A. Knopf
Publication date	September 12, 1981
Media type	Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages	480 pp
ISBN	ISBN 0394520874
Preceded by	Rabbit Redux
Followed by	Rabbit At Rest

Rabbit Is Rich is a 1981 novel by John Updike. It is the third novel in the four-part series which begins with Rabbit, Run and Rabbit Redux, and concludes with Rabbit At Rest. There is also a related 2001 novella, Rabbit Remembered. Rabbit Is Rich was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1982.

[edit] Plot summary

This third novel in Updike's Rabbit series finds Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, a one-time high school basketball star, has reached a paunchy middle-age without straying from Brewer, Pennsylvania, the downtrodden, fictional city of his birth. Harry and Janice, his wife of twenty-two years, live comfortably, having inherited her late father's Toyota dealership. He is indeed rich, but Harry's persistent problems, including his wife's drinking, his troubled son's schemes, his libido, and spectres from his past, complicate life. Having achieved a lifestyle that would have embarrassed his working-class parents, Harry is not greedy, but neither is he ever quite satisfied. Harry nurses a crush on a country-club friend's young wife, dangerously seeking approval. Nevertheless he is unable to read the warning signs.