rabbit, run by John Updike

I can now understand why this book is considered such a great American novel. This book conveyed a very powerful message to me, in an exciting and thought-provoking manor, that running away might make you happy, but what about everyone else. Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom is bored with his life, like many other Americans, and wants to throw it all away, start new. Updike takes an average American household and rips it apart. A husband leaving his despondent wife and two year-old child behind does not sound like the American dream we all strive for. This book brings out the other, other side of America. A side of America that we know about but choose to ignore. I almost cried reading this book and would recommend it to everybody. I wish to read all the sequels which include :Rabbit Redux, Rabbit is Rich, Rabbit at Rest and the final book that is about after Rabbit's time, Rabbit Remembered.