{"product_id":"john-updike-novels-1986-1990-loa-354-rogers-version-rabbit-at-rest-9781598537178","title":"John Updike: Novels 1986-1990 (Loa #354): Roger's Version \/ Rabbit at Rest","description":"\u003cb\u003eJohn Updike, at the peak of his powers, concludes his unforgettable Rabbit series and reimagines Hawthorne's \u003ci\u003eScarlet Letter\u003c\/i\u003e for contemporary America\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe latest volume in Library of America's John Updike edition presents two essential novels by the master stylist of postwar American fiction. \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRoger's Version\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e (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. In a dazzling refashioning of the love triangle at the heart of Hawthorne's \u003ci\u003eThe Scarlet Letter\u003c\/i\u003e, twin adulteries unfold, revealing the heightened contrasts and inequalities of Ronald Reagan's America. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWidely hailed upon publication as a masterpiece, awarded a Pulitzer and a National Book Critics Circle prize, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRabbit at Rest\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e(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. Now in his mid-fifties, the outwardly comfortable and complacent Harry Angstrom 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Library of America\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/31\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781598537178\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 900\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.95h x 5.12w x 1.65d","brand":"John Updike","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52715438538933,"sku":"9781598537178","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/john-updike-novels-1986-1990-loa-354-rogers-version-rabbit-at-rest-9781598537178","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}