Rereading Rabbit: Updike took no false steps

Between books, traveling, on a holiday with bookstores and libraries closed, I picked up the best book I could find lying around the house, which was "Rabbit, Run," and I don't plan to reread it but it was great just to dip into it again after many years, the first time I've gone back to the source since reading the complete series (of 4 novels + a novella) - amazing first of all how well and with what assurance Updike establishes the mood and feeling of a 1950s Pennsylvania small city, Brewer (aka Reading), with its suburb on a hill, Mt Judge, though by no means a wealthy suburb, the hills in Pennsylvania just another stretch of land, not like in, say, New Jersey, where the wealthier live higher up in the hills. the look of Brewer, from above, red almost terra cotta, and the narrow alleys, the walk past the old ice house, his, Rabbit's memories of the neighborhood in his childhood, the fighting couples, the pretty girls - seems so long ago, but it wasn't, really, as he's only about 24 but feeling trapped and washed up. Second, related to this, is the amazing comprehensiveness of Updike's vision of Brewer and the Angstrom family, right from these first few pages, how deftly he sketches in each character, and to look back from a vantage of 4 novels and almost 40 years later to see how he seemed to see the entire scope of the family and it's world, and how when we look back now we see how such tiny details have meaning and get played out later - the inkstains on his father's shirt tell us he's a printer, but we don't really know much about this till the 2nd volume. It seems he had to change nothing, made no false steps. Odd, that my memory was that Rabbit when right from the basketball court to his "run" across the state to W.Va., I'd forgot that he went home, spied on his parents and on Janet's, and how important that was to setting up who he is and what he's trying to escape.