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![]() John Updike
Based on the 1984 book. The movie was turned into an award-winning comedy musical by Cameron Macintosh.
Pulitizer Prize and National Book Award, 1982
1990; winner, Pulitizer Prize, 1991
1982. The latest novel in a memorable sequence
As himself
"She must have been kicked unseen or brushed by a car"
"And another regrettable thing about death is the ceasing of your own brand of magic"
Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist. Best known for his four 'Rabbit' novels, Updike was a prolific man of letters and erudite chronicler of sex, divorce and other adventures in the postwar prime of the American empire; writing novels, short stories, poems, criticism, the memoir ''Self-Consciousness'' and even a famous essay about baseball great Ted Williams. b. 18 March 1932 (Reading, Pennsylvania, USA) d. 27 January 2009 (Danvers, Massachusetts, USA)
Rabbit Run and other Rabbit novels
Appears in several stories and novels
Terrorist
Terrorist
Villages
The Poorhouse Fair, 1959
The Poorhouse Fair
Home in which is set "The Poorhouse Fair", 1959
Pennsylvania town in "Rabbit Run", 1960; "Rabbit Redux", 1971; "Rabbit is Rich", 1981; "Rabbit at Rest", 1990
Suburb of Brewer in the "Rabbit" novels
Automobile dealership in the "Rabbit" novels
Florida town which is the setting for "Rabbit at Rest"
American novelist, poet, short story and literary critic |
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