John Updike | "Rabbit, Run"
- Copyright: © John Updike 1960, 1964
"Rabbit, Run" is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his - or any other - generation. Its hero is Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, a onetime high-school basketball star who on an impulse deserts his wife and son. He is twenty-six years old, a man-child caught in a struggle between instinct and thought, self and society, sexual gratification and family duty - even, in a sense, human hard-heartedness and divine Grace. Though his flight from home traces a zigzag of evasion, he holds to the faith that he is on the right path, an invisible line toward his own salvation as straight as a ruler’s edge.
"Brilliant and poignant... By his compassion, clarity of insight, and crystal-bright prose, John Updike makes Rabbit’s sorrow his and our own." - The Washington Post- Language: English
- Dimensions: 13 х 21 cm
- Pages: 308
- Cover: softcover
- First published: 1960
- This edition published: 1995