Rabbit is rich ; Rabbit redux ; Rabbit, run

Description:

*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.

subjects: Fiction,  Middle class men,  Harry Angstrom (Fictitious character),  Grief,  Literature,  American fiction (fictional works by one author),  Pennsylvania, fiction,  Fiction, psychological,  Angstrom, harry (fictitious character), fiction,  Large type books,  Self,  Domestic fiction,  Adultery,  Angstrom, Harry (Personnage fictif),  Romans, nouvelles,  Hommes de la classe moyenne,  Men,  Psychology,  Married people,  Interpersonal relations,  American literature,  Translations into Estonian,  Translations into Chinese,  American Psychological fiction,  Older people,  Poor,  Fairs,  Chiron (Greek mythology),  Farm life,  Families,  American fiction,  Criticism and interpretation

People: John Updike

Places: Pennsylvania,  United States,  États-Unis

Times: 1950's