A 26 year old, married, ex-high school basketball star known as Rabbit runs away from his child, pregnant wife, and small home town only to end up living in the connecting small town with a prostitute. "If you have the guts to be yourself," Rabbit says, "Other people'll pay your price." The protagonist is excruciatingly selfish and throughout seems numb to the effects of his actions, though his moments of remorse reveal he is acutely aware. Updike plays to the common American urge towards escapism, typically quelled by a carefully ingrained sense of responsibility. Rabbit's motives are left ambiguous, even to himself, though it becomes obvious his solution to his problems is (and always has been) sex. Rabbit, Run is a well written, non-intrusively didactic story that follows a lost and irresponsible young man through his struggles, fraught with intriguing, believable characters and a fast plot which plowed the way for 3 sequels and a novella.Worth Reading
3 out of 5
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