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Compared with Rabbit, Run (1960) and Rabbit Redux (1971), this third novel about the life and times of Harold C. ("Rabbit") Angstrom seems, at first, uneventful. No infants drown in bathtubs, no houses burn down, leaving innocent dead behind. The year is 1979. Skylab is falling, gas prices are rising, and Rabbit, 46, sells Toyotas for Springer Motors, the firm founded by his late father-in-law. His on-and-off marriage to Janice is on again, glumly and apparently for good. They live with her mother and sock away money. Rabbit thinks less and less about his days...
Updike's continuing interest in Harry Angstrom has led some to suspect that Rabbit is an alter ego, the author's version of what he himself could have become had he not left Shillington, Pa., for Harvard and a glittering literary career. "Well," Updike laughs, "I'm a good deal shorter than he is" (Rabbit is 6 ft. 3 in.; his creator 6 ft.). They differ in other ways too; the attraction seems to be one of opposites...
...maybe too many, it's sort of a relief to deal with a character who is quite innocent of all that." Furthermore, the young Updike never seriously considered remaining in his native state: "Had I stayed a Pennsylvanian, I would have been a much tamer one than Harry Angstrom; I'm not sure by any stretch that I could have lived his disorderly life...
...Angstrom...
...dual meet, which begins at 1 p.m., has as its featured attraction the match-up of two of the East's finest runners. Back from a one-year leave of absence. Brown middle distance sensation Osman Lake will attempt to replay his freshman year edging--by angstrom units--of thinclad standout Adam Dixon...