Rabbit, Run

Rabbit, Run is the book thatestablished 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 society, sexual gratification and family duty—even, in a sense, human hard-heartedness 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 ruler’s edge.

• Rabbit Redux
• Rabbit Is Rich
• Rabbit at Rest
• American Pastoral: American Trilogy (1) (Vintage International)
• A Political History of the USA: One Nation Under God
• Licks of Love: Short Stories and a Sequel, "Rabbit Remembered"
• Portnoy's Complaint
• Seize the Day (Penguin Classics)
• Selected Poems
• Revolutionary Road