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Harry Angstrom

fictional character
Also known as: Rabbit Angstrom
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Harry Angstrom, fictional character, the protagonist of four novels by John Updike—Rabbit, Run (1960) and its sequels. Rabbit Angstrom is an ordinary middle-class man lost in the sterility of the modern world. Throughout the tetralogy, the former high-school basketball star serves as a voice for the author’s affectionate, if uneasy, commentary on his generation.

This article was most recently revised and updated by Kathleen Kuiper.