One character in this novel impregnates a woman at Kent State, but brings home her friend Melanie to stay the summer instead. That character deliberately crashes a classic car after the protagonist denigrates his business plan. After rolling in gold coins with his wife, the protagonist is turned on by Polaroids of Cindy Murkett performing oral sex, but during the climactic wife-swap ends up with Thelma Harrison instead. Its three-word title is stated after the protagonist inherits Springer Motors, which he runs with Charlie Stavros, from Janice's father; there, he runs into a girl who leads him to Ruth, the woman he'd had an affair with twenty years prior. For 10 points, name this 1981 novel by John Updike set during the late seventies, the
One character in this novel impregnates a woman at Kent State, but brings home her friend Melanie to stay the summer instead. That character deliberately crashes a classic car after the protagonist denigrates his business plan. After rolling in gold coins with his wife, the protagonist is turned on by Polaroids of Cindy Murkett performing oral sex, but during the climactic wife-swap ends up with Thelma Harrison instead. Its three-word title is stated after the protagonist inherits Springer Motors, which he runs with Charlie Stavros, from Janice's father; there, he runs into a girl who leads him to Ruth, the woman he'd had an affair with twenty years prior. For 10 points, name this 1981 novel by John Updike set during the late seventies, the third about Harry Angstrom.
One character in this novel impregnates a woman at Kent State, but brings home her friend Melanie to stay the summer instead.
{Rabbit is Rich}