Rabbit, Run
About this book
*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.
Subjects
- adultery
- american fiction
- american fiction (fictional works by one author)
- american literature
- american psychological fiction
- angstrom, harry (fictitious character), fiction
- angstrom, harry (personnage fictif)
- chiron (greek mythology)
- criticism and interpretation
- domestic fiction
- fairs
- families
- farm life
- fiction
- fiction, psychological
- grief
- harry angstrom (fictitious character)
- hommes de la classe moyenne
- interpersonal relations
- large type books
- literature
- married people
- men
- middle class men
- older people
- pennsylvania, fiction
- poor
- psychology
- romans, nouvelles
- self
- translations into chinese
- translations into estonian