4. Reform
Rabbit returns home and is waylaid by a young Episcopalian minister on a mission to reform him. Read by Toby Jones.
Rabbit returns home to get his things and is waylaid by Jack Eccles, a young Episcopalian minister on a mission to understand and reform him – or at least get a game of golf.
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 Pulitzer 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 ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4, first broadcast in April 2017.
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Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Reader | Toby Jones |
Author | John Updike |
Abridger | Eileen Horne |
Producer | Clive Brill |
Broadcasts
- Thu 20 Apr 2017 22:45´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4
- Sat 7 Dec 2019 21:45´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4
- Thu 11 Jan 2024 21:30´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra