Rabbit, Runis the book thatestablished John Updike as one of the major American novelists of hisor any othergeneration. Its hero is Harry Rabbit Angstrom, a onetime highschool basketball star who on an impulse deserts his wife and son. He is twentysix years old, a manchild caught in a struggle between instinct and thought, self and society, sexual gratification and family dutyeven, in a sense, human hardheartedness 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 as straight as a rulers edge.
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