Rabbit, Run
by John Updike
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Author: John UpdikeEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1996-08-27
ISBN: 0449911659
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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- ISBN13: 9780449911655
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Book Review: American anti-hero
Summary: 4 Stars
Harry `Rabbit' Angstrom is an anti-hero for 1960s America and for modern times: self-centred, irresponsible, sybaritic, pusillanimous. Rabbit is an ex-college basketball player. He is spoilt, though he does have an intermittently functioning conscience. And he decides his layabout wife and his job as a potato-peeler salesman are not what he expected from life: such is the premise of Rabbit, Run, a self-contained novel that became the first piece of a four-part series.
Rabbit, Run brushes aside money to suggest sport and religion are what American mores are about. For despite its premise, the book soon parts with beat-generation road-novel stereotypes. What interests Updike isn't so much that giddy ride into the unknown, but what happens back home, the tug-of-war of flight and gravity more than flight itself. Rabbit, Run thus resembles a darker version of the movie The Graduate more than On The Road. Rabbit becomes involved with a loose woman as he is chased about by a local pastor. This makes for a slow, sometimes un-engaging middle third of the story, especially since Updike's characters are meant as realistic more than appealing. Nevertheless, the novel picks up pace towards the end. And if it has mildly aged since it was written - one scene, involving fellatio, was evidently expected to shock and was indeed censored in the first edition - Rabbit, Run remains highly readable and interesting.
Summary of Rabbit, Run
Harry Angstrom was a star basketball player in high school and that was the best time of his life. Now in his mid-20s, his work is unfulfilling, his marriage is moribund, and he tries to find happiness with another woman. But happiness is more elusive than a medal, and Harry must continue to run--from his wife, his life, and from himself, until he reaches the end of the road and has to turn back....Updike, John Books
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