Harry Królik Angstrom, niegdyś mistrz drużyny koszykówki w college'u, obecnie pracownik domu towarowego, trudniący się reklamą cudownej maszynki do obierania jarzyn, czuje się zagubiony w otaczającym go świecie. Należy do tej części amerykańskiej klasy średniej lat pięćdziesiątych, która na ogół biernie akceptuje amerykański styl życia. A jednak, pod wpływem impulsu, porzuca żonę, córkę bogatego pośrednika handlu samochodami, i ucieka przed jałową konsumpcyjną egzystencją, przed wegetacją, w której gimnastyka seksualna zastępuje uczucia. Nie jest to ucieczka dla samej ucieczki - Królik szuka innych wartości, potwierdzenia wiary w zasady, dzięki którym jego byt mieściłby się w ramach jakiegoś wielkiego ładu. Przypominamy skrzącą się humorem najsłynniejszą powieść wnikliwego obserwatora codzienności.
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Harry Angstrom, znany jako 'Rabbit', zmaga się z życiowymi wyzwaniami w małym miasteczku w Pensylwanii. W miarę jak jego życie staje się coraz bardziej skomplikowane, odkrywa trudności związane z tożsamością, izolacją i poszukiwaniem sensu w nowoczesnym świecie. Seria ukazuje surową rzeczywistość oraz głęboką psychologię postaci, które zmagają się z własnymi demonami.






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It's 1969 and Rabbit has changed, as America has changed in the intervening ten years since the book "Rabbit, Run". His marriage is collapsing, his job is redundant and the urgency of racial tension present a challenge neither his consciousness nor his sexuality can resist.
Winner of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Ten years after RABBIT REDUX, Harry Angstrom has come to enjoy prosperity as the Chief Sales Representative of Springer Motors. The rest of the world may be falling to pieces, but Harrry's doing all right. That is, until his son returns from the West, and the image of an old love pays a visit to his lot....
Winner of the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In John Updike's fourth and final novel about ex-basketball player Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, the hero has acquired heart trouble, a Florida condo, and a second grandchild. His son and daughter-in-law are acting erratically, his wife Janice wants to work, and Rabbit is searching his soul, looking for reasons to live.
In this brilliant late-career collection, John Updike revisits many of the locales of his early fiction: the small-town Pennsylvania of Olinger Stories, the sandstone farmhouse of Of the Farm, the exurban New England of Couples and Marry Me, and Henry Bech’s Manhattan of artistic ambition and taunting glamour. To a dozen short stories spanning the American Century, the author has added a novella-length coda to his quartet of novels about Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom. Several strands of the Rabbit saga come together here as, during the fall and winter holidays of 1999, Harry’s survivors fitfully entertain his memory while pursuing their own happiness up to the edge of a new millennium. Love makes Updike’s fictional world go round—married love, filial love, feathery licks of erotic love, and love for the domestic particulars of Middle American life.
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The trilogy comprises of Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux and Rabbit is Rich. It is intended as an amusing, sympathetic study of a man, Rabbit Angstron, putting up a fight against the inevitable.
Newly revised by the author for this edition, and printed together in one volume for the first time, Updike's four Rabbit novels chronicle the history of a man and a nation from the 1950s to the 1980s. Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, athlete, is Mr Middle America. Dazzling in style, tender in feeling, often erotic in description and coruscating with realistic details which recreate a world in each novel, these books give a complete picture of their age.
The first and second novels in John Updike's acclaimed quartet of Rabbit books -- now in one marvelous volume. RABBIT, RUN"Brilliant and poignant . . . By his compassion, clarity of insight, and crystal-bright prose, [Updike] makes Rabbit's sorrow his and out own.The Washington Post"Precise, graceful, stunning, he is an athlete of words and images. He is also an impeccable observer of thoughts and feelings."The Village VoiceRABBIT REDUX"Great in love, in art, boldness, freedom, wisdom, kindness, exceedingly rich in intelligence, wit, imagination, and feeling -- a great and beautiful thing . . . these hyperboles (quoted from a letter written long ago by Thomas Mann) come to mind after reading John Updike's Rabbit Redux.The New York Times Book Review "Updike owns a rare verbal genius, a gifted intelligence and a sense of tragedy made bearable by wit. . . . A masterpiece.Time

