American author John Updike mirrored his America in poems, short stories, essays, and novels, especially the four-volume "Rabbit" series. At the age of twenty-two, Updike began his writing career when he published his first story "Friends from Philadelphia," in the New Yorker in 1954. Since childhood, Updike had admired the New Yorker and always dreamed of becoming a cartoonist for the magazine. Updike was also the author of several volumes of short stories, among them Pigeon Feathers, The Music School, Bech: A Book, Museums and Women, and Bech Is Back. Rabbit Is Rich is a 1981 novel and the third novel of the four-part series which begins with Rabbit, Run and Rabbit Redux. It picks up the story of Harry Angstrom, Rabbit, in his mid-forties in the late 1970s. He is the Sales Manager and part owner of Springer Motors Toyota, in the fictional town of Brewer, PA. Rabbit Is Rich is, more than anything else, a novel of father and son, a novel of the perennial generational conflict that is always with us. Each generation reacts against the world in its own way, and that way more often than not is incomprehensible to the generations that preceded it. One generation’s revolution may turn out to be the conservatism or passivity of another generation. Instinctively resisting the ties of family and responsibility, Rabbit found it very difficult to settle down when he was young. He craved freedom, adventure, and change… You can listen online to free English audiobook “Rabbit Is Rich” by John Updike on our website.
