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2. Advice

In seeking advice about his marriage, Rabbit finds himself introduced to an alternative partner. Read by Toby Jones.

Rabbit returns to Mt Judge and turns to his old high school basketball coach for advice about his marriage - but instead, finds himself introduced to an alternative partner.

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 Pullitzer 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 BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in April 2017.

14 minutes

Last on

Tue 9 Jan 202421:30

Credits

RoleContributor
ReaderToby Jones
AuthorJohn Updike
AbridgerEileen Horne
ProducerClive Brill

Broadcasts

  • Tue 18 Apr 201722:45
  • Sat 23 Nov 201921:45
  • Tue 9 Jan 202421:30