Pulitzer Prize Fiction Winner
Rabbit Is Rich
by John Updike
Summary
The third installment in the Rabbit tetralogy finds Harry Angstrom comfortably middle aged, running his late father in law's Toyota dealership in a Pennsylvania suburb during the late 1970s gas crisis and inflation. Updike tracks his everyman through golf, sex, money, and uneasy fatherhood with his trademark sentence level precision. Critics often cite the novel as the strongest entry in one of the most ambitious portraits of postwar middle class American life.
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Historical Context & Significance
Updike is one of only four authors to win two Pulitzers for Fiction. Critics celebrate him for his microscopic attention to the details of American domesticity.