Janice spends her days boozing and watching television. Harry and Janice live in a cramped upstairs apartment. His “career” consists of demonstrating a kitchen gadget in a dime store, and he is locked in an unhappy marriage with a woman named Janice, who he knew and courted in high school. In high school he was an accomplished and much-admired athlete, but by the time we meet him at age twenty-six he has fallen from the lofty heights he once occupied. In Rabbit, Run we are introduced to one Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom. Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit at Rest were awarded Pulitzer Prizes for fiction for the years in which they were published. The other novels in the series are Rabbit Redux (1971), Rabbit is Rich (1979), and Rabbit at Rest (1992). The four novels together are a landmark in contemporary American literature. Rabbit, Run, published in 1960, is the first in a series of four novels by John Updike with the same set of characters. Radio 4 plans to broadcast all five novels in the series over the next few years.Ī Brill production for BBC Radio 4.Rabbit, Run by John Updike ~ A Capsule Review by Allen Kopp In the New York Times he was praised for his "artful and supple" style in his "tender and discerning study of the desperate and the hungering in our midst's". Rabbit, Run established Updike as one of the major American novelists of his generation. When Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom joins an impromptu basketball game, he sets in motion a chain of decisions that will free him from the responsibilities of adult life - or so he hopes. Rabbit, Run is the first in a virtuoso Pulitzer Prize-wining quintet featuring hapless Harry Angstrom, whom we meet as a 26-year-old former high school basketball star and suburban paragon in the midst of a personal crisis. The post-war novel that summed up middle-class white America and established John Updike as the major American author of his generation.
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