Rabbit Redux - John Updike

The roles are reversed in the second part of John Updike s Rabbit quadrilogy as Rabbit Armstrong s wife leaves him holding the baby! After being brought to heel by the coventions of family life that he tried to avoid in Rabbit Run , Rabbit now finds himself struggling to fill the void left in their son s life by his wife s absence, as well as holding down a job and adapting to life in the late 1960s. The addition of a teenage runaway (Jill) and a young black radical (Skeeter) to this uncoventional family stretches Rabbit s resolve to breaking point, as sexual tension, suspicion and recreational drug abuse leads the cast of characters down a slippy path. Genuinely ...