Rabbit, Run

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Eileen Horne

Clive Brill

Rabbit, Run by John Updike: 7. Reunited

Rabbit, Run by John Updike

7. Reunited

BBC Radio 4 - Rabbit, Run by John Updike, 7. Reunited

Rabbit is reunited with his wife, Janice and swears to turn over a new leaf.

Rabbit is reunited with his wife, his old basketball coach and his in-laws, and turns over a new leaf. Read by Toby Jones.

The post-war novel that summed up middle-class white America and established John Updike as the major American author of his generation.

Rabbit, Run is the first in a virtuoso Pulitzer Prize-wining quintet featuring hapless Harry Angstrom.

We meet him as a 26-year-old former high school basketball star and suburban paragon in the midst of a personal crisis.

Abridged by Eileen Horne

Read by Toby Jones.

Producer: Clive Brill

A Brill production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in April 2017.

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Serialised reading of John Updike's 1960 novel. Read by Toby Jones.

Serialised reading of John Updike's 1960 novel. Read by Toby Jones. Abridged by Eileen Horne.

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