Bibliograph

Rabbit, run, John Updike

Type

Label

Rabbit, run, John Updike

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Rabbit, run

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

682920371

Responsibility statement

John Updike

Summary

"Contemporary in setting and tone, and brilliant in its evocation of everyday life in America, the novel is about Harry Angstrom ('Rabbit'), a salesman who, on an impulse, leaves home, his alcoholic wife, Janice, and his child, Nelson, to find freedom. After several escapades and a liaison with an ex-prostitute, he returns to his wife and child and attempts to settle down again. In this novel, Updike conveys the longings and frustrations of family life. Rabbit's malaise is not so much a yearning for freedom as, perhaps, a yearning for guiding spiritual values and meaning. At the end, still dissatisfied and guilt-ridden because of the responsibility he feels for the death of his second child, he begins running again." Reader's Ency. 3d edition

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