Rabbit, Run
First edition cover | |
| Author | John Updike |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf |
Publication date | November 2, 1960 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 265 |
| ISBN | 978-0394442068 |
| 813.54 | |
| Followed by | Rabbit Redux |
Rabbit, Run is a 1960 novel by John Updike. The novel depicts three months in the life of a 26-year-old former high school basketball player named Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, who is trapped in a loveless marriage and a boring sales job, and attempts to escape the constraints of his life. It spawned several sequels, including Rabbit Redux, Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit at Rest, as well as a related 2001 novella, Rabbit Remembered. In these novels, Updike takes a comical and retrospective look at the relentless questing life of Rabbit against the background of the major events of the latter half of the 20th century.