Why read Rabbit Is Rich?

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award

The hero of John Updike’s Rabbit, Run, ten years after the events of Rabbit Redux, has come to enjoy considerable prosperity as the chief sales representative of Springer Motors, a Toyota agency in Brewer,…

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1 author picked Rabbit Is Rich as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Frederick Kaufman

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This is a novel from the “go-go ‘80s,” and delivers an insight into the money culture of modern middle class America. It’s a deep, comedic, and sad story of marriage, sex, gold, and dollars. The subtle characterizations gave me a strong sense of the human side of money, its emotional weight and valence—indeed, its pathos.

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