Rabbit, Run (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
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- Author: John Updike
- First Published: 1960
- Type of Work: Novel
- 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
Rabbit, Run, a novel of a former basketball star and his floundering marriage set in the late 1950's, was the first of what has become a series of four novels about the protagonist and his family; Updike published one of them every ten years from 1960 to 1990. Together the novels form a revealing chronicle of the complex changes occurring in American culture between the 1950's and the late 1980's. In Updike's hero, Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, the reader sees one of the author's many lapsed creatures in search of renewal, of regeneration, of something to believe in. The...
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