Rabbit, Run

Rabbit, RunRabbit, 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

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Trade
Published: 08/27/1996
ISBN: 9780449911655
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.32h x 5.52w x 0.74d

Review Citations: Entertainment Weekly 09/04/2015 pg. 45

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 83812 / Rabbit, Run
Reading Level: 5.9 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 16