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5. Proof

Episode 5 of 10

Rabbit revels in a lack of consequences for his behaviour and insists that Ruth prove her love to him. Read by Toby Jones.

Ruth has been losing weight to please Harry but somehow she is gaining again.

Rabbit revels in a lack of consequences for his behaviour and insists that Ruth prove her love to him.

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 Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4, first broadcast in April 2017.

14 minutes

Last on

Fri 12 Jan 2024 21:30

Credits

Role Contributor
Reader Toby Jones
Author John Updike
Abridger Eileen Horne
Producer Clive Brill

Broadcasts

  • Fri 21 Apr 2017 22:45
  • Sat 14 Dec 2019 21:45
  • Fri 12 Jan 2024 21:30