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Eileen Horne

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Rabbit Redux by John Updike: 9. Slipping Away

Rabbit Redux

9. Slipping Away

Rabbit Redux by John Updike

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Skeeter leaves town, and Harry's sister Mim unexpectedly arrives to visit their mother.

Skeeter leaves town, and Harry's sister Mim arrives to visit their mother whose time is fast slipping away. Read by Toby Jones.

Skeeter leaves town, Harry's younger sister Mim arrives for a visit and, while Harry and Nelson struggle to adjust to a new reality, his mother's time is fast slipping away.

John Updike's masterful Rabbit quintet established Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom as the quintessential American White middle class male. The first book Rabbit, Run was published in 1960 to critical acclaim. Rabbit Redux is the second in the series, published in 1971 and charting the end of the sixties - featuring, among other things, the first American moon landing and the Vietnam War. 

Despite its very strong language, sex, and reflection of racist attitudes of the time, Time Magazine said of the book and its author, "Updike owns a rare verbal genius, a gifted intelligence and a sense of tragedy made bearable by wit. A masterpiece."

It's extraordinary how many of its themes reverberate down to the present day.

Abridged by Eileen Horne
Read by Toby Jones
Produced by Clive Brill

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

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Serialised reading of John Updike's 1971 novel. Read by Toby Jones.

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