Rabbit, Run is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his?or any other?generation. Its hero is Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, a onetime high-school basketball star who on an impulse deserts his wife and son. He is twenty-six years old, a man-child caught in a struggle between instinct and thought, self and society, sexual gratification and family duty?even, in a sense, human hard-heartedness and divine Grace. Though...

The stunning novella that concludes John Updike’s acclaimed Rabbit series is now available on audio.
Set ten years after Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom’s death, RABBIT REMEMBERED returns listeners to the small Pennsylvania town where Harry’s widow, Janice, and his son, Nelson, still reside. They are faced with a surprise when Annabelle, Harry’s 39-year-old illegitimate daughter, arrives on the scene, bringing...

Takes place in one day, a day that contains much conversation and some rain. The 78-year-old painter, Hope Chafetz, who in the course of her eventful life has been Hope Ouderkirk, Hope McCoy, and Hope Holloway, answers questions put to her by a New York interviewer, and recapitulates, through the story of her own career, the triumphant, poignant saga of postwar American art. In the evolving relation between the two, the interviewer and interviewee...