Rabbit Redux

John Updike · 1971 CE · Novel · Modern / American · Contemporary

Ten years on, Harry Angstrom sets type at a Brewer print shop, watches the Apollo 11 launch on a bar television and comes home to find his wife has moved in with a Greek car salesman. Into the emptied house come a runaway rich girl and a black Vietnam veteran with a taste for lecturing white America on its history. Updike used the second Rabbit book to force 1969 — moon, war, drugs, riots — inside a single working-class living room.

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• continues ↑ Rabbit, Run
  John Updike · 1960 CE · Novel
• ↓ Rabbit Is Rich
  John Updike · 1981 CE · Novel — continues this

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