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Rabbit, Run
By John Updike
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By John Updike
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An elegiac (and comedic) Handbook to the Mid-Century American Man. Meet former high school basketball star Rabbit Angstrom, now married and father, bored by suburban life and his job in sales, and still unprepared for life. Start reading and you’ll understand immediately why this is the novel that made Updike’s reputation.
“A lacerating story of loss and of seeking, written in prose that is charged with emotion but is always held under impeccable control.”—Kansas City Star
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 ...
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 ...
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