A Rabbit Omnibus (Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich) [Import] [Hardcover]

John UPDIKE (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1100 pages
• Publisher: Andre Deutsch (1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0233986375
• ISBN-13: 978-0233986371
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,738,473 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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John Updike was born in 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954, and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker, and since 1957 lived in Massachusetts. He was the father of four children and the author of more than fifty books, including collections of short stories, poems, essays, and criticism. His novels won the Pulitzer Prize (twice), the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Award, and the Howells Medal. A previous collection of essays, Hugging the Shore, received the 1983 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. John Updike died on January 27, 2009, at the age of 76.

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5.0 out of 5 stars the rabbit omnibus by john updike, June 30, 2009

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This review is from: A Rabbit Omnibus (Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich) (Hardcover)

i read the rabbit books as they were published in the 1960s. the recent tv series 'madman' took me back to the usa in the 1960s and made me want to re-read the rabbit stories that captured those times so well.

my first husband very much wanted to leave england and move to the usa in the 1960s. after long visits, i realised i did not like the value systems in the usa at that time when everything 'on the surface' was clean, neat and perfect whilst under the surface there were double standards that especially applied to attitudes towards women and blacks.

eventually, my husband went to live in usa. i later emigrated to australia with our children. given the way usa has turned out, i recon i chose the better path.

in the rabbit series and his other books, including 'couples', updike captured the values of usa in the 60s exceptionally well, imho.