![]() Rabbit Is Rich takes up the story in 1979, with Harry at 46. ![]() Frustrated with life in his hometown of Brewer, Pennsylvania, Harry pursues a series of extramarital relations and experiences various misfortunes: he gets a young girl, Ruth, pregnant, but leaves her before finding out whether she kept the child his wife Janice drunkenly and accidentally drowns their newborn daughter in the bathtub and his son Nelson grows to hate him, blaming him for the death of Jill, a girl he loved that was living in their house when it burned down. The first two books had covered Harry’s 20s and 30s. ![]() ![]() Throughout the series, Harry serves as an allegory of sorts for working-to-middle-class small-town America, his life and emotions reflecting the anxieties of his time. Each book in the series takes place during a certain decade of American history, with Rabbit Is Rich corresponding to the late 1970’s. The series is considered an American classic, with Julian Barnes calling it the “greatest postwar American novel” in a Guardian piece. The series deals with the life of former high-school basketball player Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, from his early twenties to his death. It comes after Rabbit, Run and Rabbit Redux, and precedes the final, Rabbit At Rest. ![]() Rabbit Is Rich is a 1981 novel by John Updike, the third installment of the celebrated “ Rabbit” series of books. ![]()
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