John Updike - Rabbit at Rest

Pros: One of the finest American novels ever written.

Cons: ----

The Bottom Line: Updike's finest novel.

Review: Out of what many American literature enthusiasts call the big 4(Saul Bellow, Phillip Roth, Norman Mailer, and John Updike), it is Updike who is the most underrated, as well as the most likeable. Granted he has his flaws: few writers as gifted has him ...

Pros: Heavy in reality, great character development

Cons: None

Review: Rabbit at Rest
Fourth in a series preceded by Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux and Rabbit is Rich.

In this, the last in a series of four novels starring Harry or "Rabbit" Angstrom, John Updike follows the character as he...

Pros: The completion of the Rabbit tetralogy. Well-written and powerful.

Cons: None in my mind.

The Bottom Line: If one wishes to approach the works of John Updike, his Rabbit books are essential. This final novel is one of his best.

Review: Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom is in his fifties, an aging baby boomer nearing the end of his days, as Rabbit At Rest begins, and as the final decade before the next century rolls over, he is living the good life. With not only his house in Pennsylvania, but ...

Pros: A believable end to a terrific series.

Cons: No more Rabbit books

Review: I read all four books in this series, so I guess I have an affinity for Rabbit and that's why I wish John Updike hadn't killed him off. The Rabbit series covers the period of a man's life between the 1950's to the 1990's. Rabbit was Joe Everyman, a...

Pros: John Updike, no need to say more!

Cons: Reading first three books is a must!

The Bottom Line: Powerful view of being a middle-aged male in the early 1990 America. Updike's writing is phenomenal!

Review: "Rabbit at Rest" is the fourth and final novel of the "Rabbit" series written by a master, John Updike. While one should read all four of the Rabbit novels to follow the plot of Harold "Rabbit" Angstrom's life, you can get by reading only one of the...

Pros: part of a monumental achievement written by a national treasure

Cons: depressing, not quite as good as Rabbit Is Rich

Review: You've got to read the first three books in the Rabbit series for this one to properly impact you. John Updike really gets you to feel like you've lived an American family's tragically lackluster life, and as it comes to an end in Rabbit at Rest, you'll...