The Run by John Hay

The Run by John Hay

Rabbit, Run is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his--or any other--generation. Its hero is Harry Rabbit Angstrom, a onetime high-school basketball star who on an impulse deserts his wife and son. He is twenty-six years old, a man-child caught in a struggle between instinct and thought, self and society, sexual gratification and family duty--even, in a sense, human hard-heartedness and divine Grace. Though his flight from home traces a zigzag of evasion, he holds to the faith that he is on the right path, an invisible line toward his own salvation as straight as a ruler's edge.

John Milton Hay (1838-1905) was best known as a statesman and public servant. He was private secretary and assistant to Abraham Lincoln, Ambassador to Great Britain, and Secretary of State under Presidents McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt, known for creating the 'Open Door policy with China and for negotiating the construction of the Panama Canal. He was also a well-known writer whose works include the ten-volume Abraham Lincoln: A History (1890), co-authored with John Nicolay, for many years the standard Lincoln biography; Castilian Days (1871), a collection of essays about Spain; Pike County Ballads, local-color poetry set in the rural Illinois of his youth (1871); The Bread-winners (1883), a novel, and a number of short stories and poems.

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ISBN 13	9780807085707
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Title	The Run
Author	John Hay
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Publisher	Beacon Press
Year published	1999-03-01
Number of pages	192
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