Rabbit Redux -- John Updike

<p>In this sequel to <i>Rabbit, Run, </i> 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.</p><br><br><b>Author:</b> John Updike<br><b>Publisher:</b> Random House Trade<br><b>Published:</b> 08/27/1996<br><b>Pages:</b> 448<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.95lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.00d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780449911938<br><br><b>Accelerated Reader:</b><br><b>Reading Level:</b> 5.4<br><b>Point Value:</b> 20<br><b>Interest Level:</b> Upper Grade<br><b>Quiz #/Name: </b>108726 / Rabbit Redux<br><br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><b>John Updike</b> was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of <i>The New Yorker</i>. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal. In 2007 he received