rabbit, run John Updike --Rabbit (Harry Angstrom) is a high school basketball star grown up and married, with a young child and a baby on the way. His wife, Janice, seems dull and boring to him, and his family life makes him feel tied down.
in a fit of desperation, Rabbit runs away. Although he returns to his town, he doesn't go home to his pregnant wife. Instead Rabbit acquires a lover, Ruth, and moves in with her.
Janice's parents enlist a preacher to help lure Rabbit back to respectable family life. Instead Rabbit and the preacher strike up a friendship and go golfing together, however Rabbit isn't enticed back to his wife and child.
In a last ditch effort to bring Harry back to his family the preacher phones Harry as his wife is about to give birth. What follows haunts Harry and his wife in the coming books of the series.
Published in 1960, rabbit, run sums up the spirit of the late 50's. I enjoyed looking at the decade through the eyes of an author who had just experienced it.
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