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1) Rabbit, run
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, a onetime high-school basketball star who on an impulse deserts his wife and son is - at twenty-six - a man-child caught in a struggle between instinct and thought, self and society, sexual gratification and family duty - even, in a sense, human hard-heartedness and divine Grace. Though his flight from home traces a zigzag of evasion, he holds to the faith that he is on the right path, an invisible line toward his own salvation...
2) Rabbit redux
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this sequel to Rabbit, Run, 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...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 28
Lexile measure
1180L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Harry Angstrom has come to enjoy prosperity as the Chief Sales Representative of Springer Motors. The rest of the world may be falling to pieces, but Harry's doing all right. That is, until his son returns from the West, and the image of an old love pays a visit to his lot.
4) Villages
Author
Language
English
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Description
This delightful, witty, passionate novel runs from the Depression era to the early 21st century; following Owen Mackenzie from his birth to his retirement, during which time the female citizens work to disengage Owen from his youthful innocence.
Author
Series
Rabbit Angstrom novels volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 31
Lexile measure
1050L
Language
English
Description
"Ex-basketball player Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom has acquired heart trouble, a Florida condo and a second grandchild. His son, Nelson, is behaving erratically and his wife, Janice, decides in mid-life to become a working girl. As, through the winter, spring and summer of 1989, Reagan's debt-ridden, AIDS-plagued America yields to that of George Bush, Rabbit explores the bleak terrain of late middle age, looking for reasons to live."
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