6/26/2023 0 Comments Rabbit is rich john updike![]() ![]() Refracted through the dictator’s fevered narration, the story that unfolds is a biting satire of the inescapable culture of the country Ellelloû both loves and loathes: “America, that fountainhead of obscenity and glut.” In 1978, Updike embarked on a surprising departure with The Coup, a riotous novel set in sub-Saharan Africa, “a lengthy monologue,” as an admiring Joyce Carol Oates observed, “that really is a coup of sorts.” In the landlocked nation of Kush, a former French colony suffering a punishing drought, the American-educated Colonel Hakim Félix Ellelloû deposes the country’s monarch and installs himself as leader. This third volume in Library of America’s five-volume edition of John Updike’s selected novels brings together one of his great masterpieces, Rabbit Is Rich, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and two wickedly funny novels that capture the changed realms of sex, politics, and family in the aftermath of the 1960s. Save $75 when you purchase the five-volume set of John Updike’s novels. ![]()
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