Angstrom bunny6/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But one day the drinking habits of his wife and the smallness of their apartment just gets to be too much and he leaves. Back in the 1960s, Harry Angstrom is living with pregnant wife Janice and their son Nelson. Rabbit Run is a very apt name for a book about a man who basically runs whenever faced with adversity. But now it was time for me to try out the Rabbit series. I watched The Witches of Eastwick and can’t remember much from it. ![]() I read Terrorist a couple of years ago and liked it but felt let down by the ending. But so far Updike hasn’t really won me over. Before he died, Updike was mentioned frequently as a contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature – together with one of my favorite authors Joyce Carol Oates and Philip Roth who so far does nothing but impress me. Three of the four books about Rabbit are on the list of 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die and two of the books even received the Pulitzer Prize. 3)įor years I’ve been hearing about John Updike and his four books about Harry Angstrom, the man know as Rabbit. ‘So tall, he seems an unlikely rabbit, but the breath of white face, the pallor of his blue irises, and a nervous flutter under his brief nose as he stabs a cigarette into his mouth partially explain the nickname, which was given to him when he too was a boy.’ (p. ![]()
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