Book · 1960 · Fiction

Rabbit, Run

Name: Rabbit, Run
Author: John Updike

Random House Trade Paperbacks (Penguin Random House) · 325 pages

★ 6.8 editorial score

Harry Angstrom peaked at eighteen on a basketball court and now demonstrates kitchen gadgets. He leaves his pregnant wife and drives south. Updike gave the American suburb prose nobody thought it deserved.

Medium

Novel

Subject

Middle class Selfishness Marriage

Setting

Pennsylvania

Time

1960Depicts 1960s

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Quote · 350 BC

“The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.”

Aristotle

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“That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation.”

Matthew Arnold

Quote · 1883

“The Forgotten Man... Delving away in patient industry, supporting his family, paying his taxes, casting his vote, supporting the church and the school... But he is the only one for whom there is no provision in the great scramble and the big divide. Such is the Forgotten Man. He works, he votes, generally he prays-but his chief business in life is to pay... Who and where is the Forgotten Man in this case, who will have to pay for it all?”

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