Rabbit Run Author:John Updike The hero of John Updike's second novel is Rabbit Angstrom, a onetime high-school basketball star who on an impulse deserts his wife. He is twenty-six years old, and caught in the potentially tragic clash between instinct and law, between biology and society, between, in a sense, religion and morality. Though his path in life becomes a zig-zag of... more » evasion, he holds to the faith that his inner life. . .an unstable compound of lust and nostalgia, affection and fear. . .has an intrinsic, final importance. The local is mostly a small urban section of southeastern Pennsylvania; the time is the spring of 1959.« less