It’s also a husband and wife book, and a story about a jock grown up who is still dining out on his fading star power. I love watching the scenery evolve from book to book, how the world around Harry changes and he never does. Harry goes on through up and downs, crisis of faith, spiritual bankruptcy and changing of the country in pre-Eisenhower America. The opening moments of this classic remind me what it’s like to catch raindrops, it’s everywhere all at once. Harry is obsessed with getting laid, not uncommon in a marriage, but Updike digs into Harry for a long time, examining his former basketball career, (redone by Franzen in Freedom, if anyone other than me and Kakutani were paying attention). Harry leaves his wife and son at the start, which left me wondering where it was going, but he comes back. It is surprising that no one really cares enough about these books to make them into movies. The James Caan movie adaptation of Rabbit Run is kicking around out there, and it would have been great to see Caan play Harry for all four books. Starting with Rabbit Run, you will instantly recognize yourself in Harry, and his woes aren’t new - infidelity, tragedies he endures or inflicts. Like John Cheever, I didn’t discover either writer until I was in my 40’s. I never knew Updike very well, his writing was always something off in the distance, on a road I never traveled. Jack Eccles, and Henry Jones and Josephine Hutchinson as Rabbit's parents.It is a glorious thing, this repackage. The movie co-starred Jack Albertson as Coach Marty Tothero, Arthur Hill as Rev. Rabbit, Run was the basis for the 1970 film directed by Jack Smight starring James Caan as Rabbit Angstrom, Carrie Snodgress as Rabbit's wife Janice, and Anjanette Comer as his girlfriend Ruth. into the uncertainties of the 80s" (The New York Times). The books have also created a Kodachrome-sharp picture of American life. "Taken together, this quartet of novels has given its readers a wonderfully vivid portrait of one Harry (Rabbit) Angstrom. "Updikes choice of Rabbit Angstrom, in Rabbit, Run, was inspired, one of those happy, instinctive accidents that so often shape a literary career" (Books of the Century, 450). Each volume is near fine to fine in near fine dust jackets. $3,000.00 Item Number: 121353įirst editions of each volume in the Rabbit quartet. Rabbit, Run Rabbit Redux Rabbit Is Rich Rabbit At Rest Licks of Love.
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