Research Catalog

Title

John Updike : novels 1986-1990 / Christopher Carduff, editor.

Author

Updike, John

Publication

• New York, N.Y. : The Library of America, [2022]
• ©2022

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Details

Additional Authors

Carduff, Christopher

Description

854 pages; 21 cm.

Summary

• "This volume in Library of America's John Updike edition presents two essential novels by the master stylist of postwar American fiction. Roger's Version (1986) stakes out ground that encompasses Updike's recurring themes of sex, desire, and adultery as well as an emerging interest in the cosmic implications of contemporary scientific breakthroughs. Widely hailed upon publication as a masterpiece, awarded a Pulitzer and a National Book Critics Circle prize, Rabbit at Rest (1990) wraps up the saga of Updike's most enduring protagonist and concludes his 'surpassingly eloquent elegy for his country,' in the words of Joyce Carol Oates"--
• Roger's version (1986): Roger Lambert, a middle-aged professor of divinity, is stuck in his office by Dale Kohler, a young computer scientist who believes that technical advances in computing shows evidence of God's existence. Then a theological-scientific debate ensues, and Roger employs wicked strategies to disembarrass Dale of his faith. But Dale's passion turns to his erotic attraction to Esther, Roger's much younger wife, that takes her away from him and into Dale's bed. The novel, a majestic allegory of faith and reason, ends as a black comedy of revenge, for this is Roger's side of the triangle described by Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter--made new for a disbelieving age.
• Rabbit at rest (1990): Now in his mid-fifties, ex-basketball player Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom has acquired heart trouble and has settled into leisured obsolescence, dividing his time between Pennsylvania and the Valhalla Village retirement community in Florida. But alongside his golfing, junk-food consumption, and other forms of ease there loom unavoidable markers of Rabbit's human fragility and his mortality.

Series Statement

The Library of America ; 354

Uniform Title

• Novels. Selections
• Library of America ; 354.

Alternative Title

• Novels.
• Updike : novels 1986-1990
• Novels 1986-1990

Subject

• Angstrom, Harry Fictitious character) > Fiction
• Angstrom, Harry Fictitious character)
• Adultery > Fiction
• Families > Fiction
• Exiles > Fiction
• God > Proof > Fiction
• College teachers > Fiction
• Middle class men > Fiction
• Retirement > Fiction
• Psychological fiction
• Adultery
• Exiles
• Families
• Middle class men
• Retirement
• Non-consensual non-monogamy
• Non-monogamy
• Family members
• God > Proof
• God
• College teachers

Genre/Form

Fiction.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Awards (note)

• The National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, 1990
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1991

Contents

Roger's version -- Rabbit at rest.

Call Number

PS221

ISBN

• 9781598537178
• 1598537172

OCLC

1255595367

Author

Updike, John, author.

Title

John Updike : novels 1986-1990 / Christopher Carduff, editor.

Publisher

New York, N.Y. : The Library of America, [2022]

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The Library of America ; 354

Library of America ; 354.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Awards

Rabbit at rest: The National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, 1990

Rabbit at rest: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1991

Added Author

Carduff, Christopher, editor.

Container of (work): Updike, John. Roger's version.

Container of (work): Updike, John. Rabbit at rest.

Spine Title

Updike : novels 1986-1990

LCCN

2021941911

Research Call Number

*R-RMRR PS221 .A4 v. 354