It seems to him he’s the only person around here who cares about neatness. As he leaves to get Nelson and the car, an irritated Harry is oppressed by the chaos of the apartment: The couple’s two-and-a-half-year-old son Nelson is with Rabbit’s parents. She is six-months pregnant and irritable. Just yesterday, it seems to him, she stopped being pretty.
She is a small woman whose skin tends toward olive and looks tight, as if something swelling inside is straining against her littleness. There, he finds his wife Janice sitting in an armchair with an Old-fashioned, watching television turned down low. When he finishes his game, he heads home to his apartment in Mount Judge, a suburb of the much larger 100,000-resident city of Brewer. In fact, at the very, very beginning of John Updike’s 1960 novel Rabbit, Run, the 26-year-old, 6’ 3” Harry is playing pickup basketball with some kids, young enough to know nothing of his fame a decade earlier. Rabbit was a high school athlete, a star basketball player, known for scoring and never getting called for a foul. His hands lift of their own and he feels the wind on his ears even before, his heels hitting heavily on the pavement at first but with an effortless gathering out of a kind of sweet panic growing lighter and quicker and quieter, he runs. At the end, he is running willy-nilly, without direction, into the unknown. Later, he is running to - to the hospital.
Used Good (2 available) Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.At the start, Harry Angstrom, nicknamed Rabbit, is running away.
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