Rabbit, Run is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of hisor any othergeneration. 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 dutyeven, 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 rulers edge.
Rabbit, Run
Random House Trade Paperbacks
$15.46 - $32.20
- UPC:
- 9780449911655
- Maximum Purchase:
- 3 units
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 1996-08-27
- Release Date:
- 1996-08-27
- Author:
- John Updike
- Language:
- english
- Edition:
- Reissue