Rabbit, Run

Author: John Updike

Language: English

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks

Dimensions: 5.51 x 0.76 x 8.26 inches

ISBN-10: 449911659

ISBN-13: 978-0449911655

Publication Date: August 27, 1996

Print Length: 336 pages

Description: “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 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.