Rabbit Run by John Updike

Rabbit Run is the book that established 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.