Rabbit at Rest

It`s 1989, and Harry `Rabbit` Angstrom is far from restful. Fifty-six and overweight, he has a struggling business on his hands and a heart that is starting to fail. His family, too, are giving him cause for concern. His son Nelson is a wreck of a man, a cocain e addict with shattered self-respect. Janice, his wife, has decided that she wants to be a working girl. And as for Pru, his daugh ter-in-law, she seems to be sending out signals to Rabbit that he knows he should ignore, but somehow can`t. He has to make the mos t of life, after all. He doesn`t have much time left.

• author: John Updike