Rabbit at Rest (Updike)

Rabbit at Rest(Rabbit Quartet, #4)
John Updike, 1990
Random House
480 pp.
ISBN-13: 9780449911945

Summary
Pulitizer Prize winner, 1991

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, Nelson, is behaving erratically; his daughter-in-law, Pru, is sending out mixed signals; and his wife, Janice, decides in mid-life to become a working girl. As, though 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. (From the publisher.)