Book :: Rabbit, Run
| By: | John Updike |
| Pages: | 264 |
| Published: | 1960 |
| Genre(s): | American |
| Literary Fiction | |
| Adult Fiction | |
| Rating: | (4) |
95 points
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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...
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forline
All things Rabbit---one of my all time favorites! Devoured these marvelous books in the mid-80s
Jan 5th, 2018
Caro60
A strangely disturbing book. Rabbit's self-centredness is not charming and the lack of consideration he has for the women who pass through his life is far from endearing. And yet it is a compelling novel to read.
Apr 27th, 2015
Rabbit, Run appears on these lists...
97th on Rival 100 Best Novels by Radcliffe
43rd on 100 Novels Everyone Should Read by Telegraph
77th on Top 100 Books by Newsweek
