{"product_id":"rabbit-run-paperback","title":"Rabbit, Run - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A lacerating story of loss and of seeking, written in prose that is charged with emotion but is always held under impeccable control.\"--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKansas City Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRabbit, Run is the book that\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eestablished 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.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarry 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....\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51369791717599,"sku":"9780449911655","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/3GW4aeACsj9780449911655.webp?v=1789146626","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/rabbit-run-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}