John Updike

Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom is 46, co-owner of a Toyota dealership, a member of the country club, comfortable and bored in the Pennsylvania suburb he once tried to escape. It is 1979: the gas crisis, Carter's malaise speech, Iran. His son Nelson has come back with a pregnant girlfriend. Updike's Pulitzer Prize winner — middle-class American contentment as its own form of dissatisfaction.

Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, 26, was a high school basketball star in Mount Judge, Pennsylvania. Now he works demonstrating a kitchen gadget and goes home to a pregnant, alcoholic wife. One spring afternoon he gets in the car and drives south, not quite sure why. Updike's first Rabbit novel and one of the founding documents of postwar American restlessness.

Three divorced women in a small Rhode Island town have acquired magical powers. When the mysterious Darryl Van Horne arrives, he disrupts their coven. A satirical novel about female power, desire, and the anxieties of the 1960s sexual revolution, told with Updike's characteristic density of observation.