High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rabbit at Rest is a 1990 novel by John Updike. It is the fourth and final novel in a series beginning with Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, and Rabbit is Rich. There is also a related 2001 novella, Rabbit Remembered. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1991, the second "Rabbit" novel to garner the award. The novel is part of a series that follows the exploits of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom from 1960-1990, Rabbit at Rest focusing on the years 1988-1990. It finds Harry nearly forty years after his glory days as a high school basketball star in a mid-sized Pennsylvania city. Harry and his wife of 33 years, Janice, have retired to sunny Florida during the cold months, where Harry is depressed, bored, and dangerously overweight. Unable to stop nibbling corn chips and macadamia nuts, he finds himself near death after a heart attack.