John Updike - Rabbit, Run & Rabbit Redux

RABBIT, RUN, John Updike's highly acclaimed saga of desire and regret, first published in 1959, introduces Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, a typical Middle American--small-town Protestant, former basketball star, married man intent on making a name for himself in the community--whose life begins to unravel when he falls in love and deserts his wife. Caught between his sense of duty and his intimations of life's real depth, he is unable to commit himself to one or the other. In RABBIT REDUX, Updike's poignant sequel to RABBIT, RUN, the Angstroms are caught up in the social turmoil of the 1960s: sexual adventures, racial conflict, drugs. Updike takes the opportunity to explore the decade's tumultuous changes as they affect the traditional American values on which Rabbit Angstrom--like so many other Americans--fancied his life was based.