# Rabbit Redux

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- Book: [Rabbit Redux](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-updike/rabbit-redux) ([Rabbit Redux.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-updike/rabbit-redux.md))
- Authors: [John Updike](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-updike)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4118-854-6
- Pages: 384
- Published: 2006-06-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

It's 1969, and the times are changing. America is about to land a man on the moon, the Vietnamese war is in full swing, and racial tension is on the rise. Things just aren't as simple as they used to be - at least, not for Rabbit Angstrom. His wife has left him with his teenage son, his job is under threat and his mother is dying. Suddenly, into his confused life - and home - comes Jill, an eighteen-year-old runaway who becomes his lover. But when she invites her friend to stay, a young black radical named Skeeter, the pair's fragile harmony soon begins to fail ...