Rabbit, Run (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
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- Author: John Updike
- First Published: 1960
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Post-Realism
- Time of Work: 1959
- Setting: Mount Judge, Pennsylvania
- Principal Characters: Harry Angstrom, Janice Angstrom, Nelson, Earl Angstrom, Mary Angstrom, Fred Springer, Mrs. Springer, Jack Eccles, Lucy Eccles, Ruth Leonard, Marty Tothero, Mrs. Horace Smith
- Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: 1960’s, 1970’s, Family or family life, Self-discovery, Current events, Parents and children, Marriage, Prostitution or prostitutes, Alcoholism or alcoholics, Substance abuse, Ministry or ministers, Fathers, Adultery, Death or dying, Infants, Sales personnel, Counterculture
- Locales: Mt. Judge, PA
The quality distinguishing John Updike’s fiction and putting him in the front rank of novelists at an unusually young age is his ability to “get into” his characters, to experience their palpable worlds as they experience them, and to convey these experiences in prose that is at once rich and translucent. He is in that stream of post-Realism that conceives life as it is broadly and inclusively, that finds in the ordinary enough of the extraordinary to excite the poetic imagination without forsaking thorough grounding in quotidian reality. Beyond this, faint but...
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