Rabbit, Run

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Toby Jones

John Updike

Eileen Horne

Clive Brill

Rabbit, Run by John Updike: 10. Return

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10. Return

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Harry prays for his daughter - before returning to his old ways.

Harry prays for his daughter, but returns to form - abuse, horrifying his family and running to Ruth. Concluded by Toby Jones.

Harry prays for his daughter, but then returns to form - abusing his wife, horrifying his family, and running to Ruth who finally reveals her secret.  

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

Concluded 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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