Rabbit, Run | Social Concerns

With the publication of Rabbit, Run in 1960, John Updike began a series of four novels exploring the inner life of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, a former basketball star who struggles to find meaning in his chaotic life. In this first novel, twenty-six-year-old Rabbit has left the basketball court where he excelled to find himself failing at work and in his marriage. The remaining novels in the series include Rabbit Redux (1971), Rabbit Is Rich (1981), and Rabbit at Rest (1990). Updike, born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania, is the same age as Rabbit, who...

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