{"product_id":"john-updike-novels-1986-1990-loa-354-9781598537178","title":"John Updike: Novels 1986–1990 (LOA #354)","description":"\u003cb\u003eJohn Updike, at the peak of his powers, concludes his unforgettable Rabbit series and reimagines Hawthorne’s \u003ci\u003eScarlet Letter\u003c\/i\u003e for contemporary America\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe latest volume in Library of America’s John Updike edition presents two essential novels by the master stylist of postwar American fiction. \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRoger’s Version\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e (1986) stakes out ground that encompasses Updike’s recurring themes of sex, desire, and adultery as well as an emerging interest in the cosmic implications of contemporary scientific breakthroughs. In a dazzling refashioning of the love triangle at the heart of Hawthorne’s \u003ci\u003eThe Scarlet Letter\u003c\/i\u003e, twin adulteries unfold, revealing the heightened contrasts and inequalities of Ronald Reagan’s America.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWidely hailed upon publication as a masterpiece, awarded a Pulitzer and a National Book Critics Circle prize, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRabbit at Rest\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e(1990) wraps up the saga of Updike’s most enduring protagonist and concludes his “surpassingly eloquent elegy for his country,” in the words of Joyce Carol Oates. Now in his mid-fifties, the outwardly comfortable and complacent Harry Angstrom has settled into leisured obsolescence, dividing his time between Pennsylvania and the Valhalla Village retirement community in Florida. But alongside his golfing, junk-food consumption, and other forms of ease there loom unavoidable markers of Rabbit’s human fragility and his mortality.\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Library of America","offers":[{"title":"STANDARD","offer_id":62341599232387,"sku":"9781598537178","price":36.8,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/8456\/3587\/files\/9781598537178.jpg?v=1786151573","url":"https:\/\/shopcomics.eu\/products\/john-updike-novels-1986-1990-loa-354-9781598537178","provider":"Shop Comics EU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}