Rabbit, Run

Rabbit, Run, novel by John Updike, published in 1960. The novel’s hero is Harry (“Rabbit”) Angstrom, a 26-year-old former high-school athletic star who is disillusioned with his present life and flees from his wife and child in a futile search for grace and order. Three sequels—Rabbit Redux (1971), Rabbit Is Rich (1981), and Rabbit at Rest (1990)—continue the story of Rabbit in the succeeding decades of his life.