5/13/2023 0 Comments Run rabbit run novel![]() ![]() ![]() But there is also warmth in Updike’s treatment of the desperate and sometimes despicable characters that populate this entertaining novel. In the first of four Rabbit novels, Updike forensically dissects the tropes and trappings of a middle class suburban life in 60’s America with savage wit. Will he return to his family? Or will he run off again? But it turns out that it’s not so easy for Rabbit to get escape the only life he knows and we watch on in dismay as his own failure of imagination leads him in circles until he is forced to make a choice. With a young wife, a little boy and another child on the way Rabbit is trapped in a life of seeming mediocrity, the blame for which he lays squarely at the feet of the world, and he decides to get away, to run. ![]() But now, only a few years later, nothing has worked out the way he was so sure it would. Harry ‘Rabbit’ Angstrum was young, popular and the high school basketball star. ![]() Poor Rabbit, his life was meant to be so good. ![]()
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