Rabbit at Rest by John Updike

Author:John Updike [Updike, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Tags: Classics, Humour, Pulitzer
ISBN: 9780394589527
Google: S_XLsfquzuIC
Amazon: 0394588150
Barnesnoble: 0394588150
Goodreads: 666916
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 1990-09-26T04:00:00+00:00

Janice tells him, “Harry, you’re coming on too strong.”

“Well, hell, nobody else is coming on at all. You expect it to go away by itself. It won’t. The kid is hooked.”

“Let’s just not talk about the money,” she begs.

“Why not? Just what is so fucking sacred about money, that everybody’s scared to talk about it?”

The tip of her tongue peeks from between her worried lips. “With money you get into legal things.”

Judy is still with them and has been listening: her clear young eyes with their bluish whites, her reddish-blonde eyebrows with their little cowlick, her little face pale as a clock’s face and as precise pluck at Harry’s anger, undermine his necessary indignation. Retching noises from behind the bathroom door now frighten her. Harry explains, “It’ll make your daddy feel better. He’s getting rid of poison.” But the thought of Nelson being sick upsets him too, and those bands of constriction around his chest, the playful malevolent singeing deep within, reassert their threat. He fishes in his pants pocket for the precious brown vial. Thank God he remembered to bring it. He unscrews the top and shakes out a small white Nitrostat and places it, as debonairly as he used to light a cigarette, beneath his tongue.

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