num_pages: 337
description: 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.
language: English
title: Rabbit, Run
publisher: Random House