Saturday, 23 July 2011
Rabbit at Rest by John UpdikeAn ironic title for the last Updike's Rabbit quadrology. The last days of 1988, Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom is retired, morbidly obese and waiting at the Southwest Florida Regional airport for his son Nelson to arrive with wife Theresa, known as Pru, and his grandchildren Judy and Roy. Pan Am 103 has just exploded over Lockerbie. Rabbit and his wife Janice now retreat to Florida during winters, returning to their home in Brewer, Pennsylvania for summers. Rabbit spends his days on the golf course, Nelson is managing the family business, the Toyota dealership and used car lot back home in Brewer, Pennsylvania. But no one is at rest. As in Rabbit Redux drugs enter Rabbit's life again, but they signify only death and ruin, crack cocaine, early antivirals used to fight AIDS, and the nitroglycerine Rabbit has to take to his failing heart. This is an aching paen to the life of one man, never particularly admirable and often morally repulsive, but an incredible creation.
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