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Article: Rabbit lives.(Review)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- January 3, 2001
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NELSON ANGSTROM works as a mental health counselor in an Adult Day Treatment Center. On Christmas morning he learns that one of his clients, Michael DiLorenzo, has committed suicide in a desperate attempt to flee the voices in his head. Nelson is the son of Rabbit Angstrom, the central character in a series of John Updike novels that began with Rabbit Run (1960) and ended with Rabbit's death in Rabbit at Best (1990).
In a long stoW in Licks of Love, Rabbit is back, alive in the memories of his family, especially his widow, Janice, and Nelson, who has converted his drug addiction into a job as a counselor. This stoW continues the saga of a man who reached his ...