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  1. Search. 100 books based on 10 votes: Rabbit at Rest by John Updike, Rabbit, Run by John Updike, Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike, Couples by John Updike, Rabbit Red...

  2. John Updike Society board members name their top five Updike books. Peter J. Bailey. Piskor Professor of English Emeritus, St. Lawrence University (New York) Author, Rabbit (Un)Redeemed: The Drama of Belief in John Updike’s Fiction; Reading Stanley Elkin; and The Reluctant Film Art of Woody Allen. Rabbit at Rest (1990).

  3. Publication Order of Short Story Collections. The Same Door, Short Stories. (1959) Description / Buy at Amazon. Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories. (1961) Description / Buy at Amazon. Telephone Poles and Other Poems.

    • Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1) John Updike.
    • Rabbit Is Rich (Rabbit Angstrom, #3) John Updike.
    • Rabbit at Rest (Rabbit Angstrom, #4) John Updike.
    • Rabbit Redux (Rabbit Angstrom, #2) John Updike.
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    • January 27, 2009
    • March 18, 1932
    • Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
    • Rabbit Is Rich (Rabbit Angstrom, #3)
    • Rabbit at Rest (Rabbit Angstrom, #4)
    • Rabbit Redux (Rabbit Angstrom, #2)
  4. In the Fifties, this prosperity gave way, for the first time, to a distinct youth culture of rebellion and disregard for authority, documented in films (Rebel Without a Cause, 1955) and books (The Catcher in the Rye, 1951) that likely influenced Updike's "A&P," a story about conformity and questioning authority. Despite the prosperity of the postwar era, however, a significant minority of ...

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  6. Dec 6, 2013 · Sammy, the nineteen-year-old check-out boy at an A & P grocery store, who happens to be our narrator. Sammy has grown up, presumably comfortable, in the 1940s and 1950s under the cultural norms of a conventional sea-side town above Boston. At nineteen, he is experiencing his first tastes of independence and independent thinking.

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