John Updike

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Mentioned as one of Updike's Rabbit novels set in 1979, where the everyman character Harry Angstrom is always complaining about inflation and puts his money into South African Krugerrands.

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Referenced when discussing American nostalgia and the sense that America's best days may be in the past, noting that 'in John Updike's rabbit books, they talk about the great American ride is ending.'