num_pages: 280
description: Older cover edition for ISBN 9780141187839. A newer edition may be found here.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.
language: English
title: Rabbit, Run
titlecomplete: Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
characters: Marty Tothero, Nelson  Angstrom, Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, Ruth Leonard, Janice Angstrom, Jack Eccles
genres: Classics, Banned Books, Fiction, The United States Of America, Novels, 20th Century, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, American
ratings_count: 59221
places: Pennsylvania, Brewer, Pennsylvania
series: Rabbit Angstrom
awards: awardedAt: -283968000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Penguin Books