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Rabbit, Run

John Updike

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1960
Pages
Pages 280

A former high school basketball star bolts from his pregnant wife on a reckless whim and drifts into an affair, comes home only after his wife drunkenly drowns their newborn in the bath, and cannot forgive her before running again.

Boys are playing basketball around a telephone pole with a backboard bolted to it.
Rabbit, Run, John Updike

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