Riposa, Coniglio by John Updike

A plainspoken, elegiac portrait of a once‑promising athlete-turned-used‑car salesman confronting middle age, eros, and the slow unravelling of family life; as his marriage frays and his son drifts into trouble, he drifts between affairs, drinking, and a weary search for dignity, while failing health and shifting American social mores force a painful reckoning with mortality, regret, and the compromises of ordinary lives.