Rabbit Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, Rabbit at Rest (SIGNED tetralogy) by John Updike: Rabbit Angstrom Tetralogy

Rabbit Angstrom Tetralogy by John Updike (SIGNED First Editions)

1. Rabbit, Run (1960) is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his—or any other—generation. Its hero is Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, a onetime high-school basketball star who on an impulse deserts his wife and son. He is twenty-six years old, a man-child caught in a struggle between instinct and thought, self and society, sexual gratification and family duty—even, in a sense, human hard-heartedness and divine Grace. Though his flight from home traces a zigzag of evasion, he holds to the faith that he is on the right path, an invisible line toward his own salvation as straight as a ruler's edge.

2. Rabbit Redux (1971): In this sequel to Rabbit, Run, John Updike resumes the spiritual quest of his anxious Everyman, Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom. Ten years have passed; the impulsive former athlete has become a paunchy thirty-six-year-old conservative, and Eisenhower's becalmed America has become 1969's lurid turmoil of technology, fantasy, drugs, and violence. Rabbit is abandoned by his family, his home invaded by a runaway and a radical, his past reduced to a ruined inner landscape; still he clings to semblances of decency and responsibility, and yearns to belong and to believe.

3. Rabbit Is Rich (1981): Ten years after Rabbit Redux, Harry Angstrom has come to enjoy prosperity as the Chief Sales Representative of Springer Motors. The rest of the world may be falling to pieces, but Harry's doing all right. That is, until his son returns from the West, and the image of an old love pays a visit to his lot... [Winner of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.]

4. Rabbit at Rest (1990): In John Updike's fourth and final novel about ex-basketball player Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, the hero has acquired heart trouble, a Florida condo, and a second grandchild. His son and daughter-in-law are acting erratically, his wife Janice wants to work, and Rabbit is searching his soul, looking for reasons to live. [Winner of the 1991 Pulitzer Price for Fiction]

A complete set of the iconic Harry 'Rabbit ' Angstrom titles. All four books are true first US edition, first printings published by Knopf in New York. The Rabbit Run title has all 1st printing issue points. All titles are directly SIGNED by John Updike, and all books are in fine condition with fine dust jacket with the exception of Rabbit, Run - which for the most part is in very good condition with minor wear near the spine - if you're seeking additional pictures or information regarding this priceless tetralogy, please send me a message and I will try to answer your questions to the best of my knowledge. Additionally, all four books have archival dust jacket covers. This set alone goes for over $4500.

-----------------John Hoyer Updike was an American writer. Updike's most famous work is his Rabbit series (Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest; and Rabbit Remembered). Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit at Rest both won Pulitzer Prizes for Updike. Describing his subject as "the American small town, Protestant middle class," Updike is well known for his careful craftsmanship and prolific writing, having published 22 novels and more than a dozen short story collections as well as poetry, literary criticism and children's books. Hundreds of his stories, reviews, and poems have appeared in The New Yorker since the 1950s. His works often explore sex, faith, and death, and their inter-relationships. He died of lung cancer at age 76.