Rabbit, Run

“A lacerating story of loss and of seeking, written in prose that is charged with emotion but is always held under impeccable control.”— Kansas City Star 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 soc