Bibliograph

John Updike, novels 1986-1990 : Roger's version ; Rabbit at rest, John Updike ; Christopher Carduff, editor

Type

Label

John Updike, novels 1986-1990 : Roger's version ; Rabbit at rest, John Updike ; Christopher Carduff, editor

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

John Updike

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1255595367

Responsibility statement

John Updike ; Christopher Carduff, editor

Series statement

Library of America

Sub title

novels 1986-1990 : Roger's version ; Rabbit at rest

Summary

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 ageRabbit 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

Target audience

adult

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Updike, novels 1986-1990Novels 1986-1990 : Roger's version ; Rabbit at rest

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