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English
Penguin
17 July 2006
'New to Modern Classics, with a new afterwordby Justin Cartwright

It's 1989, and Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom is far from restful. Fifty-six and overweight, he has a struggling business on his hands and a heart that is starting to fail. His family, too, are giving him cause for concern. His son Nelson is a wreck of a man, a cocaine addict with shattered self-respect. Janice, his wife, has decided that she wants to be a working girl. And as for Pru, his daughter-in-law, she seems to be sending out signals to Rabbit that he knows he should ignore, but somehow can't. He has to make the most of life, after all. He doesn't have much time left ...
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Imprint:   Penguin
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 130mm,  Spine: 23mm
Weight:   356g
ISBN:   9780141188447
ISBN 10:   0141188448
Series:   Penguin Modern Classics
Pages:   512
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

John (Hoyer) Updike (1932-) American novelist, short story writer and poet, internationally known for his novels RABBIT, RUN (1960), RABBIT REDUX (1971), RABBIT IS RICH (1981), and RABBIT AT REST (1990). His latest novel is VILLAGES (Penguin, 2005) Justin Cartwright was born in South Africa, educated there, in Michigan and Oxford University. He lives in London and has won a number of prizes for his 8 novels, including the Whitbread, Hawthornden and the Sunday Times (SA) Award. He has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

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