Rabbit, Run
by John Updike · first published 1960
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Rabbit, Run is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his—or any other—generation. 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
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…http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttps... "What books would be entering the public domain if we had the pre-1978 copyright laws?" Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird John Updike, Rabbit, Run Joy Adamson, Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany Friedrich A. Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty Daniel Bell,…
on “What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2017” ↗There's something awfully tone-deaf about a conservative magazine using John Updike, Sinclair Lewis and Philip Roth to bemoan the decline of country clubs. These men's works (American Pastoral, Rabbit, Run) excoriate the culture of the 50s and 60s rat-race-to-the-country-club. The fact that the literature of the period employs the country club is not evidence of the country club's positive aspects -- it's…
on “Death of the Country Club” ↗Rabbit, Run by John Updike
on “The Age of Reading Is Over” ↗