The hero of John Updike's Rabbit, Run (1960), ten years after the hectic events described in Rabbit Redux (1971), has come to enjoy considerable prosperity as Chief Sales Representative of Springer Motors, a Toyota agency in Brewer, Pennsylvania. The time is 1979: Skylab is falling, gas lines are lengthening, the President collapses while running in a marathon, and double-digit inflation coincides with a deflation of national confidence. Nevertheless, Harry Angstrom feels in good shape, ready to enjoy life at last -- until his son, Nelson, returns from the West, and the image of an old love pays a visit to his lot. New characters and old populate these scenes from Rabbit's middle age, as he continues to pursue, in his erratic fashion, the rainbow of happiness.
- ISBN10 0140249435
- ISBN13 9780140249439
- Publish Date 30 October 1997 (first published 12 September 1981)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 25 March 2007
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 480
- Language English