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Rabbit, Run
by John Updike

Published: 1996-08-27
Paperback : 336 pages
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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 ...
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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.

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by javier f. (see profile) 09/20/20

WOW, what a denouement! Failing in his hopeless search (in all the wrong places) for the nonexistent "thing behind everything", when life gets bumpy, Rabbit's instincts are to pass the ball and run. Rabbit... (read more)

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