The Rabbit Angstrom Novels (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: John Updike
- First Published: 1960
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: 1950’s-1980’s
- Setting: Mt. Judge and Brewer, Pennsylvania, and Florida
- Principal Characters: Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, Janice Springer Angstrom, Nelson Angstrom, Rebecca Angstrom, Pru Angstrom, Charlie Stavros, Ruth Leonard, Skeeter, Jill Pendleton
- 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
The Story:
Rabbit, Run. Harry Angstrom, nicknamed “Rabbit,” was a high-school basketball star in Brewer, Pennsylvania. Rabbit did not go to college. Following a stint in the army, he married Janice Springer, who was pregnant with his child. One day, Rabbit stopped on his way home from work to play basketball with a group of young boys, remembering his days as a basketball star. After the excitement of the game, he returned to the reality of his dirty, cluttered apartment and a wife who had been drinking too much. On a sudden impulse, Rabbit, feeling trapped by family...
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