Rabbit, Run

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Rabbit, Run by John Updike: 9. Sin

Rabbit, Run by John Updike

9. Sin

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Harry learns some terrible news about his daughter, Rebecca.

Harry learns terrible news of his daughter - he becomes convinced that these are the wages of his sin. Read by Toby Jones.

Harry learns terrible news of his daughter, Rebecca. 

He becomes convinced, for the moment, that these are the wages of his sin.

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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