Nevertheless, the characters contained in the story are well presented and fleshed out beautifully, even some of the more peripheral players. While much of the writing is entertaining and very well done, it must be noted that at times, Updike seems to fly off on wild screeds of florid, almost unintelligible prose that leave the reader simply rolling his eyes. Harry's poor fourteen year old son is not only a witness, but an active participant in much that goes on. The conversations between Harry and his new housemates are enlightening both to Harry and likely to the reader. He is uncomfortable around African-Americans and views them as largely leeches and lazy hangers on. Harry supports the War and the Nixon administration. The Civil Rights movement is active and social unrest is ever present. The moon landing is in progress and the Vietnam War is in full swing. Needless to say, the combination makes for quite an explosive household, even more so given Harry's mainstream conservative political and social outlook. Things soon spice up, however, as Harry's wife leaves him and he falls in with two interesting characters, an eighteen year old runaway hippie chick from Connecticut named Jill, and a twenty something year old African-American Vietnam veteran and radical fugitive from the law named Skeeter. Rabbit Redux finds Angstrom ten years later, reconciled with his wife Janice, living a mundane existence with his wife and teen aged son in a dead end job. When we left Rabbit at the conclusion of Rabbit Run, he had just suffered the loss of his infant daughter through the negligence of his estranged, alcoholic wife. Rabbit Redux is the sequel to the novel Rabbit, Run written by John Updike, featuring as its protagonist, Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom.
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