Author:John Updike Binding: Paperback Published: 1996-08-27 ISBN: 0449911659 Availability:
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Harry Angstrom was a star basketball player in high school and that was the best time of his life. Now in his mid-20s, his work is unfulfilling, his marriage is moribund, and he tries to find happiness with another woman. But happiness is more elusive than a medal, and Harry must continue to run--from his wife, his life, and from himself, until he reaches the end of the road and has to turn back....
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Rabbit adictive:
Updike writes with such detail it's like he's painting a picture in my mind. Normally mundane life bursts off the page and I can see what he is writing about. I am now on to Rabbit Redux which jumps ahead a few years and is even better, I can remember what I was doingin 1971 when that was published, a much more political time and Updike is in the middle of it all.
Where it all started:
The Updike Rabbit series deals with contemporary issues respective to each novel - and Harry's unique, but disarming, take on each. But Rabbit, Run is where it all started and essential reading for the series (and serious reader). It's when you begin to emphathize, instead of sympathize, with Rabbit that the power of Updike begins to surface.
Where's the payoff?:
I've wanted to read Updike for a while and 'Rabbit, Run' is my first foray. It's clear from the beginning that this isn't a novel of the casual-reading variety that will allow your eyes to dance across rapidly turning pages. It doesn't pull you in like that. Updike has a gift for descriptive prose (in fact that's what you're going to get throughout the novel) and as such you have to invest time and effort to absorb and immerse yourself into the whole of it. By committing and submitting yourself to this... more info
I don't see the point of this book:
To head off the inevitable criticism, let me start off by saying that I generally like reading great literature, and can enjoy books even if (or especially if!) they are depressing or have unhappy endings. But even for such books I need a reason to care about something: either the characters or the themes or the writing. This book gave me nothing to care about. The central character [Rabbit] has no redeeming qualities: his predicaments are interesting (and had the potential to be relevant as an illustration... more info
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