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Episode 5

Episode 5 of 10

It's springtime and the Angstroms have returned north to Brewer, where Harry recalls the old days while Janice decides to pursue a new career. Nelson is going from bad to worse.

John Updike鈥檚 fourth novel about Harry 鈥淩abbit鈥 Angstrom.

It's the end of the 1980s and Harry has acquired a Florida condo, a second grandchild, and a troubled, overworked heart - not to mention a troubled underworking son. As Reagan鈥檚 debt-ridden, AIDS-panicked America yields to that of the first George Bush, Rabbit explores the bleak terrain of late middle age - looking for reasons to live and opportunities to make peace with a remorselessly accumulating past.

The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1991, the second "Rabbit" novel to garner that award.

Reader: Toby Jones
Abridger: Eileen Horne
Producer: Clive Brill

A Brill production for 成人快手 Radio 4

14 minutes

Last on

Sat 2 Jul 2022 21:45

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  • Fri 1 Feb 2019 22:45
  • Sat 2 Jul 2022 21:45