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Episode 2

Episode 2 of 10

Harry’s off his golf game, his health has definitely seen better days. While he entertains the grandkids, Nelson’s gone AWOL and Janice and Pru appear to know more than he does.

John Updike’s fourth novel about Harry β€œRabbit” Angstrom.

It's the end of the 1980s and Harry has acquired a Florida condo, a second grandchild, and a troubled, overworked heart - not to mention a troubled underworking son. As Reagan’s debt-ridden, AIDS-panicked America yields to that of the first George Bush, Rabbit explores the bleak terrain of late middle age - looking for reasons to live and opportunities to make peace with a remorselessly accumulating past.

The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1991, the second "Rabbit" novel to garner that award.

Reader: Toby Jones
Abridger: Eileen Horne
Producer: Clive Brill

A Brill production for ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

14 minutes

Last on

Sat 11 Jun 2022 21:45

Broadcasts

  • Tue 29 Jan 2019 22:45
  • Sat 11 Jun 2022 21:45