Rabbit at Rest is the fourth and last of John Updike's favous novels about Harry Angstrom of Brewster, Pennsylvania.

The chronicle began with Rabbit running away from wife and home, and ends in the same way - but with a lifetime's difference between the two events. Nothing in the Angstrom novels is more wonderful than that difference: the way Updike demonstrates what the passing of time does to a man, his family and their relationship with the place in which they live.

Each of the novels about Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom is a portrait of a decade of American life as experienced by a family like any other in that although it is ordinary it is also unique.

In this one it is Reagan's America which is evoked detail by detail, with such authority and brio that social historians must fear for their livelihoods