Yet in his time Rabbit was famous through out the county (1.7). They’ve not forgotten him worse, they’ve never heard of him. You’re out, and sort of melt, and keep lifting, until you become like to these kids just one more piece of the sky of adults that hangs over them in the town, a piece that for some queer reason has clouded and visited them. You climb up through the little grades and then you get to the top and everybody cheers with the sweat in your eyebrows you can’t see very well and the noise swirls around you and lifts you up, and then you’re out, not forgotten at first, just out, and it feels good and cool and free. Let’s look at a passage from the beginning of the novel, when he’s playing basketball with the kids: At least he wants to bring the best of his pre-adult life up into adulthood with him. Or, more precisely, like most of us – he’s trying to grow up and stay a kid. (Check out both Nelson's and Janice’s "Character Analysis.") It’s just that Rabbit is still a kid himself. He definitely loves the little guy, and perhaps even his wife, too.
We’re talking about Janice, his pregnant wife, and his son Nelson. And we don’t mean the basketball he’s so fond of. Which is part of why the old ball and chain is dragging him down.
Smith’s garden, his carbon footprint is pretty tiny. He’s environmentally conscious, too – with the walking and running instead of driving (most of the time) and tending Mrs. Jack Eccles, and Henry Jones and Josephine Hutchinson as Rabbit's parents.Twenty six year old Rabbit is six foot three, smart, talented, athletic, sexy, and has the gift of gab. The movie co-starred Jack Albertson as Coach Marty Tothero, Arthur Hill as Rev. Rabbit, Run was the basis for the 1970 film directed by Jack Smight starring James Caan as Rabbit Angstrom, Carrie Snodgress as Rabbit's wife Janice, and Anjanette Comer as his girlfriend Ruth. into the uncertainties of the 80s" (The New York Times). The books have also created a Kodachrome-sharp picture of American life. "Taken together, this quartet of novels has given its readers a wonderfully vivid portrait of one Harry (Rabbit) Angstrom. "Updike s choice of Rabbit Angstrom, in Rabbit, Run, was inspired, one of those happy, instinctive accidents that so often shape a literary career" (Books of the Century, 450). Each volume is near fine to fine in near fine dust jackets. First editions of each volume in the Rabbit quartet.
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