Henry (Rabbit) Angstrom is 26, an ex-basketball star who is tired of his pregnant wife. So he runs away with a prostitute but returns home at the birth of his child. The baby's accidental death ends the marriage.
Sequel to: Rabbit, run. Follows the life of Harry (Rabbit) Angstrom ten years later, as a conservative suburbanite unable to resolve the anxieties that are brought to him from outside.
A collection of poems written by John Updike in the last seven years of his life, including the title work, a series of connected poems in which he ponders his birthdays and final illness.
