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#3062 of 8,085 books · #1473 in Fiction

Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction (1972).

In this sequel to Rabbit, Run, John Updike resumes the spiritual quest of his anxious Everyman, Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom. Ten years have passed; the impulsive former athlete has become a paunchy thirty-six-year-old conservative, and Eisenhower's becalmed America has become 1969's lurid turmoil of technology, fantasy, drugs, and violence. Rabbit is abandoned by his family, his home invaded by a runaway and a radical, his past reduced to a ruined inner landscape; still he clings to semblances of decency and responsibility, and yearns to belong and to believe.

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Publisher
Random House
ISBN-13
9780307744081
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Topics
Middle-class disillusionment1960s social upheavalMarriage and family breakdown

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