This is the final novel about Harry Angstrom of Brewster, Pennsylvania The chronicle began with Rabbit running away from wife and home and ends in the same way, but with a lifetime's difference Within the Angstrom family, it is Rabbit's son, Nelson, who calls the tune during the crises they undergo In spite of the fact that, for much of the time covered, Rabbit and Janice are meant to be enjoying retirement in Florida, 'rest' is hardly the word for what they experience