Books like Rabbit at Rest
Harry Angstrom, overweight and with a bad heart, winters in Florida with his wife Janice while their son Nelson runs the dealership back in Pennsylvania into the ground.
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The Centaur
Over three winter days in 1947, George Caldwell, a schoolteacher in small-town Pennsylvania, and his fifteen-year-old son Peter are stranded by snow, and their lives are shadowed by the myth of Chiron the centaur.
Veronica
Alison, a former model now sick and cleaning offices in California, looks back on her years in Paris and New York, and on Veronica, an older, abrasive office temp who became her friend.
Independence Day
A real estate agent in suburban New Jersey tries to find meaning in ordinary American life during one Fourth of July weekend.
Ravelstein
Chick, an ageing writer, sets down the memoir he promised his friend Abe Ravelstein, a brilliant, extravagant Chicago professor whose book about the decline of the American mind has made him rich.
Tinkers
George Washington Crosby, an old repairer of clocks dying in his living room in Maine, remembers his father, an epileptic tinker who sold goods from a mule cart.
All Fours
A semi-famous artist in her mid-forties sets out to drive alone from Los Angeles to New York, stops at a motel thirty minutes from home, and does not leave, spending a fortune remaking the room around a sudden obsession.
Angle of Repose
A retired historian reconstructs his grandparents' lives in the American West, discovering that the compromise and sacrifice of one generation echoes through the next.
The Spectator Bird
Joe Allston, a retired literary agent in California, reads aloud to his wife from the journal of a trip to Denmark they took twenty years before, and old secrets come back.
Olive Kitteridge
Thirteen linked stories circle Olive Kitteridge, a fierce, difficult maths teacher in coastal Maine, whose small cruelties and unexpected tenderness touch a whole town.
The House of Sleeping Beauties
Old Eguchi visits a secret seaside inn where elderly men pay to spend the night beside young women drugged into a deep sleep, and each night brings back memories of his life.
Housemates
Leah, a writer, and Bernie, a photographer, meet through a Philadelphia housemate ad, and when Bernie's old professor leaves her a complicated inheritance the two set out across rural Pennsylvania to make a book of words and pictures.
The Corrections
A Midwestern family buckles under the weight of a domineering father, a depressed mother, and three adult children whose failures mirror America's at the millennium.