Rabbit, Run

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Rabbit, Run by John Updike: 4. Reform

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Rabbit returns home to get his things and is waylaid by the local minister, Jack Eccles.

Rabbit returns home and is waylaid by a young Episcopalian minister on a mission to reform him. Read by Toby Jones.

Rabbit returns home to get his things and is waylaid by Jack Eccles, a young Episcopalian minister on a mission to understand and reform him – or at least get a game of golf. 

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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