Rabbit, Run | Historical Context
According to Erik Kielland-Lund in New Essays on Rabbit, Run, "John Updike has said that the book is a product of the fifties and not really in a conscious way about" the fifties. However, Kielland-Lund noted, the book aptly reflects the American world at that time, in often dazzling detail. Even when it was published, Kielland-Lund noted, the book was recognized as reflecting "characteristics of society at that time": individualism, immaturity, religiosity, and love of sports. Donald J. Greiner wrote in John Updike's Novels that, as Updike himself noted in the foreword to...
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