Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (1929).The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (1928).Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (declined) (1926).Charming Billy by Alice McDermott (1998).Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (1997).Ship Fever and Other Stories by Andrea Barrett (1996).Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth (1995).A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis (1994).All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (1992).Middle Passage by Charles Johnson (1990).Victory Over Japan by Ellen Gilchrist (1984).The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty (1983).The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1983).So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell (1982).The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (1981).Plains Song: For Female Voices by Wright Morris (1981).The World According to Garp by John Irving (1980).Sophie's Choice by William Styron (1980).Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien (1979).The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner (1977).The Hair of Harold Roux by Thomas Williams (1975).Throughout the book, Harry wonders whether his former lover, Ruth, ever gave birth to their illegitimate daughter. He worries about Nelson, his indecisive son, a student at Kent State University. Harry has grown smitten with a country-club friend's young wife. Having achieved an opulent lifestyle that would have embarrassed his working-class parents, Harry is not greedy, but neither is he ever quite satisfied. He is indeed rich, but Harry's persistent problems-his wife's drinking, his troubled son's schemes, his libido, and spectres from his past-complicate life. Harry and Janice, his wife of 22 years, live comfortably, having inherited her late father's Toyota dealership. This third novel of Updike's Rabbit series examines the life of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, a one-time high school basketball star, who has reached a paunchy middle-age without relocating from Brewer, Pennsylvania, the poor, fictional city of his birth. Subsequent printings, however, including trade paperbacks, feature the stripe motif with stock images of a set of car keys or an image of a late-1970s Japanese automobile.
The first-edition hardcover "rainbow" dust jacket for the novel was designed by the author and is significantly different from the horizontal-stripe designs deployed on the other three Rabbit novel covers. Rabbit Is Rich was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction in 1982, as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 1981. There is also a related novella, Rabbit Remembered (2001). It is the third novel of the tetralogy that begins with Rabbit, Run, continues with Rabbit Redux, and concludes with Rabbit at Rest. Rabbit Is Rich is a 1981 novel by John Updike.
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