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Rabbit Novels Vol 2

English · Paperback

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"The third and fourth novel in John Updikes acclaimed quartet of Rabbit books-now in one marvelous volume.

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RABBIT IS RICH

Winner of the American Book Award and

the National Book Critics Circle Award

"Dazzlingly reaffirms Updikes place as master chronicler of the spiritual maladies and very earthly pleasure of the Middle-American male."

-"Vogue

"A splendid achievement!"

-"The New York Times

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RABBIT AT REST

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and

the National Book Critics Circle Award

"Brilliant . . . It must be read. It is the best novel about America to come out of America for a very, very long time."

-"The Washington Post Book World"

"Powerful . . . John Updike with his precisions prose and his intimately attentive yet cold eye is a master."

-"The New York Times Book Review"

About the author

John Updike, geboren 1932 in Shillington/Pennsylvania; Kindheit in materieller Bedrücktheit; 1950 Stipendium zum Studium am Harvard College, Hauptfach Anglistik; Abschluss des Untergraduiertenstudiums 1954 mit summa cum laude. 1953 Heirat mit der Kunststudentin Mary Entwistle Pennington, mit ihr zusammen - nach dem Studium - ein Jahr an die Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford/England. Rückkehr in die USA. 1955 - 57 fest angestellt beim Magazin 'The New Yorker', danach freier Mitarbeiter mit Veröffentlichung von Kurzgeschichten sowie einflussreicher literarischer Kritiken. 1957 Umzug nach Ipswich im neuenglischen Massachusetts. 1964 Vortragsreisen durch die UdSSR, Rumänien, Bulgarien und Tschechien. Seit 1964 Mitglied des National Institute of Arts and Letters. 1973 Fulbright-Lektor in Afrika. 1976 Mitglied der American Academy of Arts and Letters. Auszeichnungen: 1983 Lincoln Literary Award und Distinguished Pennsylvania Artist Award, 1988 St. Louis Literary Award, 1989 National Medal of Arts, 1991 Premio Scanno, 1993 Common Wealth Award und Conch Republic Prize for Literature, 1995 Commandeur de l'ordre des arts et des lettres und The Howells Medal from the Adademy of Arts and Letters. John Updike verstarb 2009.

Product details

Authors John Updike
Publisher Ballantine
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 04.11.2003
 
EAN 9780345464576
ISBN 978-0-345-46457-6
Dimensions 142 mm x 210 mm x 38 mm
Series Rabbit
Rabbit
Subject Fiction > Narrative literature

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