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Rabbit at Rest: Episode 4

Episode 4

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Following the Sunfish accident, the family visit Harry in hospital.

Janice has it out with Nelson and discovers he is in serious debt, threatening her own fortune. Following the sailing accident, they make an excruciating hospital visit.

John Updike’s fourth novel about Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom.

It's the end of the 1980s and Harry has acquired a Florida condo, a second grandchild, and a troubled, overworked heart - not to mention a troubled underworking son. As Reagan’s debt-ridden, AIDS-panicked America yields to that of the first George Bush, Rabbit explores the bleak terrain of late middle age - looking for reasons to live and opportunities to make peace with a remorselessly accumulating past.

The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1991, the second "Rabbit" novel to garner that award. 

Reader: Toby Jones
Abridger: Eileen Horne
Producer: Clive Brill

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The 4th part of John Updike's Pullitzer Prize-winning 'Rabbit' series, read by Toby Jones.

The fourth part of John Updike's Pullitzer Prize-winning 'Rabbit' series, read by Toby Jones.

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