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Rabbit at rest

Harry Angstrom looks enviously at the young players skipping across the basketball pitch and wonders whether he should take his doctor's advice and not overdo it. He wonders if rest isn't exactly what he needs. Originally published: Westminster, Md.: Alfred A. Knopf; London: Andre Deutsch, 1990.

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  • "Rabbit at rest"

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  • "Fifty-six and overweight, Harry Rabbit Angstrom has a struggling business on his hands and a heart that is starting to fail. His family, too, is giving him cause for concern. His son is a wreck of a man and his wife has decided that she wants to be a working girl. He has to make the most of life."
  • "Harry Angstrom looks enviously at the young players skipping across the basketball pitch and wonders whether he should take his doctor's advice and not overdo it. He wonders if rest isn't exactly what he needs. Originally published: Westminster, Md.: Alfred A. Knopf; London: Andre Deutsch, 1990."@en
  • "The fourth and final story of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, a former basketball player who has aquired a condo in Florida and a second grandson. Life in American in the eighty's during the Regan years."
  • "Een welgestelde Amerikaan die zich heeft teruggetrokken in Florida, ontdekt dat hij zijn automobielbedrijf niet aan zijn zoon kan overlaten."
  • "Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Howells Medal, and the National Book Critics Circle Award In John Updike's fourth and final novel about Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, the hero has acquired a Florida condo, a second grandchild, and a troubled, overworked heart. His son, Nelson, is behaving erratically; his daughter-in-law, Pru, is sending him mixed signals; and his wife, Janice, decides in midlife to return to the world of work. As, through the year of 1989, Reagan's debt-ridden, AIDS-plagued America yields to that of the first George Bush, Rabbit explores the bleak terrain of late middle age, looking for reasons to live and opportunities to make peace with a remorselessly accumulating past."
  • "Ex-basketball player Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom has acquired heart trouble, a second grandchild, and is looking for a reason to live."@en
  • "In Rabbit at Rest, ex-basketball player Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom has acquired heart trouble, a Florida condo and a second grandchild. His son, Nelson, is behaving erratically and his wife, Janice, decides in mid-life to become a working girl. As, through the winter, spring and summer of 1989, Reagan's debt-ridden, AIDS-plagued America yields to that of George Bush, Rabbit explores the bleak terrain of late middle age, looking for reasons to live."@en
  • "Ex-basketball player Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom has acquired heart trouble, a second grandchild, and he is looking for a reason to live."
  • "Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Howells Medal, and the National Book Critics Circle Award In John Updike's fourth and final novel about Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, the hero has acquired a Florida condo, a second grandchild, and a troubled, overworked heart. His son, Nelson, is behaving erratically; his daughter-in-law, Pru, is sending him mixed signals; and his wife, Janice, decides in midlife to return to the world of work. As, through the year of 1989, Reagan's debt-ridden, AIDS-plagued America yields to that of the first George Bush, Rabbit explores the bleak terrain of late middle age, looking for reasons to live and opportunities to make peace with a remorselessly accumulating past."@en
  • "In John Updike's fourth and final novel about the ex-basketball player Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, the hero has acquired heart trouble, a Florida condo, and a second grandchild."@en
  • "Ex-basketball player Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, now living in a Florida condominium, faces middle age, heart trouble, and a wife who has suddenly gone to work."@en
  • "Ex-basketball player Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom explores the bleak terrain of middle age during the winter, spring and summer of 1989, looking for reasons to live."@en

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  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Downloadable e-Books"
  • "Humorous fiction"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Roman"
  • "Contemporary fiction"@en
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Americké romány"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Powieść amerykańska"
  • "Popular literature"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"

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  • "Rabbit at rest"@en
  • "Rabbit at rest"
  • "Rabbit at Rest"
  • "Rabbit at rest : [a novel]"
  • "Rabbit rust"
  • "Rabbit in Ruhe Roman"
  • "Krolik uspokoilsi︠a︡"
  • "Кролик успокоился"
  • "Jänis ei juokse"
  • "Jänis ei juokse"@fi
  • "Rabbit in Ruhe : Roman"
  • "兔子歇了"
  • "Haren vilar"@sv
  • "Haren vilar"
  • "Coelho em paz"
  • "Rabitt at rest"
  • "Tu zi xie le"
  • "Tu zi xie le = Rabbit at rest"
  • "Rabbit in Ruhe : roman"
  • "Rabbit en paix : roman"
  • "Riposa coniglio"@it
  • "Conejo en paz"
  • "Conejo en paz"@es
  • "Riposa coniglio"

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