![]() She is possibly even more emotionally immature than Harry is. Janice spends her days boozing and watching television. Harry and Janice live in a cramped upstairs apartment. His “career” consists of demonstrating a kitchen gadget in a dime store, and he is locked in an unhappy marriage with a woman named Janice, who he knew and courted in high school. In high school he was an accomplished and much-admired athlete, but by the time we meet him at age twenty-six he has fallen from the lofty heights he once occupied. In Rabbit, Run we are introduced to one Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom. Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit at Rest were awarded Pulitzer Prizes for fiction for the years in which they were published. ![]() The other novels in the series are Rabbit Redux (1971), Rabbit is Rich (1979), and Rabbit at Rest (1992). The four novels together are a landmark in contemporary American literature. Rabbit, Run, published in 1960, is the first in a series of four novels by John Updike with the same set of characters. Rabbit, Run by John Updike ~ A Capsule Review by Allen Kopp ![]()
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