Rabbit at Rest (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

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“You might say it’s a depressed book about a depressed man, written by a depressed man,” said John Updike cheerfully to the American Booksellers Association convention in Las Vegas three months before the publication of Rabbit at Rest. The first draft of his book, which Updike described as “a kind of dying for me,” was completed ten days before the death of his mother, his last personal link to the corner of Pennsylvania that Rabbit inhabits. Rabbit at Rest is the ultimate installment in the tetralogy that began with Rabbit Run (1960) and continued with Rabbit...

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