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...abbit" Angstrom once yearned for freedom. One night in '59, he went out for cigarettes and never returned. He fled: from a drunken, child-like wife, and a dank, frame-house row-home apartment. From wealthy in-laws, and cloyingly supportive parents. From the town of Mt. Judge, Pa., once greener, once marked by the men that lived in it; from the city of Brewer, its asphalt and industries. He left a baby son, Nelson, and the promise of a second, unborn, child...
Throughout Rabbit Run, Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom struggled; he still ran at novel's end, in a final gesture of revolt. He was naive and inarticulate, and not wholly conscious of the implications his acts held for others. But his faith in that single emancipating impulse was beyond his neighbors' compromises: Rabbit became their conscience and scapegoat. To his parents, he was "the worst kind of Brewer bum"; to his in-laws, the destroyer of his wife Janice; to his mistress, something too inspiring...
RABBIT REDUX, by John Updike. A sequel to Rabbit Run, in which 36-year-old "Rabbit" Angstrom must cope with a runaway wife, a drug addict and a black militant who calls him Super Chuck...
When last seen through the mist of such depressing lyrics. Harry ("Rabbit") Angstrom was hustling his 6 feet 3 inches over the drab surface of Mount Judge, Pa., and away from his responsibilities. That was in 1960 at the conclusion of John Updike's Rabbit, Run. Unlike Huckleberry Finn, Rabbit had no expansive territory ahead. Tethered by circumstances, he could only enjoy what Updike calls "a little ecstasy of motion...
...demanding blacks and all the upheavals of the decade have touched him only as agitated dream shadows on his TV set. His son Nelson, now 13, is still undersized and smallhanded. Home is a cheesy one-family house in a development on the outskirts of West Brewer, Pa. Mom Angstrom is dying; Pop works at Verity Press, where Rabbit finally wound up as a linotype operator...