Rabbit, Run

By John Updike

Subjects: Grief, Self, Domestic fiction, Adultery, Literature, Large type books, Middle class men, Romans, nouvelles, Angstrom, Harry (Personnage fictif), Pennsylvania, fiction, Hommes de la classe moyenne, Fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Angstrom, harry (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, psychological, Men, Psychology, Harry Angstrom (Fictitious character)

Description: 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