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Rabbit Is Rich

de John Updike

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Séries: "Rabbit" Series (3)

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Fiction. Literature. HTML:Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award
 
The hero of John Updike??s Rabbit, Run, ten years after the events of Rabbit Redux, has come to enjoy considerable prosperity as the chief sales representative of Springer Motors, a Toyota agency in Brewer, Pennsylvania. The time is 1979: Skylab is falling, gas lines are lengthening, and double-digit inflation coincides with a deflation of national self-confidence. Nevertheless, Harry ??Rabbit? Angstrom feels in good shape, ready to enjoy life at last??until his wayward son, Nelson, returns from the West, and the image of an old love pays a visit to the lot. New characters and old populate these scenes from Rabbit??s middle age as he continues to pursue, in his zigzagging fashion, the rainbo… (mais)
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This series is my In Search of Lost Time, goddamn you. ( )
  theoaustin | May 19, 2023 |
De las peripecias del ya celebre y entrañable Harry Conejo Angstrom, que conforman en cuatro novelas el cuadro más completo de la intrahistoria reciente de Estados Unidos, solo nos faltaba la penúltima, Conejo es rico, que cubre la década de los años setenta del pasado siglo y cuya publicación hemos ido postergando para dar paso a las obras más recientes de John Updike, que, a sus setenta años, está más imaginativo y sabio que nunca. Desde que Harry Angstrom, en Corre, Conejo, se largara de casa sin previo aviso, abandonando a Janice y a Nelson, han pasado veinte años, y diez desde los febriles acontecimientos descritos en El regreso de Conejo. Harry ha conseguido por fin disfrutar de una considerable prosperidad como jefe de ventas de Springer Motors, un concesionario de Toyota en Pennsylvania. En 1979, el Skylab describe su órbita triunfal, el precio de la gasolina sube vertiginosamente, el presidente de Estados Unidos sufre un colapso mientras corre una maratón, y una inflación en alza coincide con un momento de desaliento nacional. Sin embargo, Harry se encuentra en buena forma, dispuesto a disfrutar por fin de la vida... hasta que su hijo regresa del Oeste y reaparece un antiguo amor. Pese a todo, el incombustible Conejo seguirá buscando, a su excéntrica manera, el arco iris de la felicidad.
  Natt90 | Mar 2, 2023 |
This was a great book. Better then the first two. Mainly because it did end with you feeling sick to you stomach. Don't get me wrong I loved the first two books or else I wouldn't read the third one, but the ending to those would make others never read an Updike book ever again. This ending though is worth the read.

Probably the main reasons I love this book is the fact there was this entire father and son feud going on between Rabbit and Nelson. Threw out the book there is tension and you can help but feel sorry for Nelson having a bad father and also sorry for Rabbit for having a son who doesn't listen to his father. I find it sadly true that some fathers (like Rabbit) care more about their car than their own son.

If you want some questions from the first novel dealing with Ruth, this book answers them too. He is consistently thinking about Ruth what happened the the baby they had together. It's kind of odd at time he'd be thinning about Ruth and his bastard child, but at the same time you'd expect that from Rabbit.

Be warned if you pick up this book or any of the Rabbit books though. They are filled with sex and swears to the point it might make you not want to read the book. However, keep in mind that Updike probably did this for a reason. I believe he made Rabbit such a bigot and other characters dislikeable to show that they are just human. There's no hero you root for or villain you want destroyed in these books. You just observing live threw the eyes of a average American male. ( )
  Ghost_Boy | Aug 25, 2022 |
More of the same from Updike with two exceptions: less happens and there’s more graphic sex. Quite why this novel, of the three Rabbit novels so far, won the most awards including the Pulitzer is beyond me.

My conclusions that Rabbit and his ilk are a complete waste of human space were confirmed by this. How many people are there out there whose lives are of no benefit to anyone except themselves and to the detriment of everyone around them?

No one in this novel is capable of loving anyone around them or even aware that they lack the ability. Instead, they carry on with facade and distortion as if life really is all about their petty concerns.

Rabbit has grown fat, in more ways than one, on the proceeds of the Toyota showroom inherited from his now deceased father-in-law. He is estranged from his son, emotionally estranged from his wife, and still beset by fantasies of the sexual grass being greener.

Updike must have thought all women were simply objects. He describes all of them in terms of their bodily appearance and, as far as I can tell from these three novels, created Rabbit to somehow legitimise lust. Even when he does create a character who supposedly loves Rabbit, his expression of that is for her to take him away during a vacation swingers night and have him perform anal sex. How facile do you have to be for this to be what you consider an expression of love?

So, in conclusion, having read the first three books, while Updike can write great prose, he turned his skill to rendering lives that were entirely unworthy of our focus. Either there’s some genius irony there and that’s exactly the point, or these three books are equally unworthy. I think it actually may be both. ( )
  arukiyomi | Aug 23, 2020 |
The third novel in the Rabbit Angstrum series, Harry is middle aged, his son is away at college and he and Janice live with Janice’s mother. Harry is running Springer Motors and believes he is owner but really, he works for his mother-in-law and his wife. Harry has become obsessed with money. His son can’t make a decision and appears to be irresponsible (a lot like Harry) and he is also obsessed with the daughter he had with Ruth.
Rabbit is Rich was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction in 1982 and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 1981. Of the three that I have read so far, I liked this the least and I like Harry the least in this book. There is way too much sex talk and thoughts on Harry’s part and the words used are offensive. What Updike does so well is capture time. In this book, the reader revisits the first oil shortage, Carter administration, eighties inflation. It just wasn’t a very interesting time as the previous book but still a walk down memory lane. Harry does redeem himself with the last sentences of the book when he is holding his granddaughter. ( )
  Kristelh | Aug 11, 2020 |
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"Rabbit Is Rich," a novel by John Updike published in 1981, is the third book in the "Rabbit" series, following the life of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom. Set in the late 1970s against the backdrop of the American economic boom and the energy crisis, the novel captures Rabbit in middle age, now running his father-in-law's Toyota dealership, a symbol of his newfound prosperity and the shifting economic landscape of the time.

As Rabbit navigates the complexities of wealth, family, and societal change, the novel delves into themes of materialism, dissatisfaction, and the search for meaning beyond the trappings of success. Rabbit is depicted as a character who, despite achieving what appears to be the American dream, grapples with a sense of emptiness and the challenges of adapting to a changing world.

"Rabbit Is Rich" is notable for its rich character development, intricate narrative style, and the way it captures the zeitgeist of the era. Updike's portrayal of Rabbit's life, with its ups and downs, reflects broader themes of American identity, generational conflict, and the pursuit of happiness. The novel won several prestigious awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award, cementing its status as a significant work in American literature and continuing the deep exploration of one man's journey through the latter half of the 20th century.
 
Rarely has a single character been so faithfully followed for so many years by so many readers. Rarely has anyone written like John Updike. As a writer, he dared his fellows to be perceptive, to be honest, and above all to be specific. How large his footprint, how ghosted.
 

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'At night he lights up a good cigar, and climbs into the little old 'bus, and maybe cusses the carburetor, and shoots out home. He mows the lawn, or sneaks in some practice putting, and then he's ready for dinner."
GEORGE BABBITT of the 'Ideal Citizen'
The difficulty to think at the end of day,
When the shapeless shadow covers the sun
And nothing is left except light on your fur...
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'A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts'
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Running out of gas, Rabbit Angstrom thinks as he stands behind the summer-dusty windows of the Springer Motors display room watching the traffic go by on Route 111, traffic somehow thin and scared compared to what it used to be.
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Rather than face who it is, he runs. (p. 113)
Rain, the last proof left to him that God exists. (p. 125)
...all the souvenirs of the dead bristle with new point, with fresh mission. (p. 184)
He enunciates with such casual smiling sonorousness that his sentences seem to keep travelling around a corner after they are pronounced. (p. 191, of the Rev. Archie Campbell)
As always when he sees his son unexpectedly Harry feels shame . . . Run, Harry wants to call out, but nothing comes . . . (pp. 240-41)
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Fiction. Literature. HTML:Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award
 
The hero of John Updike??s Rabbit, Run, ten years after the events of Rabbit Redux, has come to enjoy considerable prosperity as the chief sales representative of Springer Motors, a Toyota agency in Brewer, Pennsylvania. The time is 1979: Skylab is falling, gas lines are lengthening, and double-digit inflation coincides with a deflation of national self-confidence. Nevertheless, Harry ??Rabbit? Angstrom feels in good shape, ready to enjoy life at last??until his wayward son, Nelson, returns from the West, and the image of an old love pays a visit to the lot. New characters and old populate these scenes from Rabbit??s middle age as he continues to pursue, in his zigzagging fashion, the rainbo

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