Rabbit, Run

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Toby Jones

John Updike

Eileen Horne

Clive Brill

Rabbit, Run by John Updike: 1. Chain

Rabbit, Run by John Updike

1. Chain

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Rabbit Armstrong joins a basketball game which underlines all that is wrong with his life.

4 Extra Debut. When ‘Rabbit’ Angstrom joins a basketball game, it underlines all that is wrong with his life. 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 Pullitzer 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.

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.

Abridged in ten parts 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.

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