The Rabbit Angstrom Novels (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: John Updike
- First Published: 1960
- Type of Work: Novels
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: 1959-1989
- Setting: Mt. Judge and Brewer, Pennsylvania, and Florida
- Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, 1970’s, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., Self-discovery, United States or Americans, Current events, Parents and children, Marriage, 1980’s, Pennsylvania, Alcoholism or alcoholics, Substance abuse, Fathers, Adultery, Drug addiction or addicts, Florida, Cocaine, Counterculture
- Locales: Florida, Brewer, PA, Mt. Judge, PA
Characters Discussed
Rabbit, Run, 1960
Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, a former high school basketball star. Now in his mid-twenties, he is married, is a father, and holds a mediocre sales job. Plagued by feelings of bore-dom and alienation, he abandons his pregnant wife for a quasi-religious quest whose goal he intuits but cannot define: “some-thing that wants me to find it.” At the funeral of his second child, he flees his wife, Janice Angstrom, for the third and, he believes, final time.
Janice Springer Angstrom, a middle-class housewife. Like her...
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John Updike (Cyclopedia of World Authors)John Updike (Poetry)John Updike (Short Fiction)John Updike (Long Fiction)John Updike (Identities and Issues)John Updike (Sixties in America)Rabbit at Rest (Literary Annual Reviews)Rabbit at Rest (Magill Book Reviews)Rabbit, Run (Masterplots Classics)
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