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* DomesticAbuse: Being the 1950s, neither Harry nor any other characters in the book think anything of him getting rough with his romantic partners when they displease him (or he's simply upset). Culminates in [[spoiler: his sexually assaulting Janice, which leads to her getting drunk and accidentally drowning their infant daughter]].
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* GloryDays: Harry is a former basketball star who peaked in high school.
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* GloryDays: Harry is a former basketball star who peaked in high school. Eight years on, he still can't stop hanging out with his old coach and reminiscing about his glory days.
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WordOfGod says that this was written in response to ''Literature/OnTheRoad''. A [[TheFilmOfTheBook film adaptation]] was released in 1970, directed by Jack Smight and starring Creator/JamesCaan as Rabbit. Updike later featured the character in three additional novels (''Rabbit Redux'', ''Rabbit Is Rich'', and ''Literature/RabbitAtRest'').
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WordOfGod says that this was written in response to ''Literature/OnTheRoad''. A [[TheFilmOfTheBook film adaptation]] was released in 1970, directed by Jack Smight and starring Creator/JamesCaan as Rabbit. Updike later featured the character in three additional novels (''Rabbit Redux'', ''Rabbit Is Rich'', ''Literature/RabbitIsRich'', and ''Literature/RabbitAtRest'').
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* {{Jerkass}}: Harry isn't an easy character to like or root for. He's self-centered, small-minded, irresponsible, womanizing, and frankly terrible as a husband and father.
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* ComicBookTime: Averted. Each of the succeeding ''Rabbit'' novels was published roughly a decade after the previous one, and each depicts Rabbit having aged another ten years.
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* ComicBookTime: Averted. Each of the succeeding ''Rabbit'' novels was published roughly a decade after the previous one, and each depicts Rabbit Harry having aged another ten years.
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* GloryDays: Rabbit Harry is a former basketball star who peaked in high school.
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* SoulSuckingRetailJob: Rabbit works in a department store, selling a kitchen gadget called the [=MagiPeeler=].
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* SoulSuckingRetailJob: Rabbit Harry works in a department store, selling a kitchen gadget called the [=MagiPeeler=].
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* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: The fictional Brewer is modeled on John Updike's hometown of Reading, Pennsylvania.
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* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: The fictional Brewer is modeled on John Updike's hometown home region of Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania.
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WordOfGod says that this was written in response to ''Literature/OnTheRoad''. A [[TheFilmOfTheBook film adaptation]] was released in 1970, directed by Jack Smight and starring Creator/JamesCaan as Rabbit. Updike later featured the character in three additional novels (''Rabbit Redux'', ''Rabbit Is Rich'', and ''Rabbit at Rest'').
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WordOfGod says that this was written in response to ''Literature/OnTheRoad''. A [[TheFilmOfTheBook film adaptation]] was released in 1970, directed by Jack Smight and starring Creator/JamesCaan as Rabbit. Updike later featured the character in three additional novels (''Rabbit Redux'', ''Rabbit Is Rich'', and ''Rabbit at Rest'').
''Literature/RabbitAtRest'').
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* AlliterativeTitle: Along with all of its sequels.
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''Rabbit, Run'' is a 1960 novel by Creator/JohnUpdike. The novel depicts three months in the life of a 26-year-old former high-school basketball player named Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, who's trapped in a loveless marriage and a boring sales job, and his attempts to escape the constraints of his life.
WordOfGod says that it was written as a response to ''Literature/OnTheRoad''. A [[TheFilmOfTheBook film adaptation]] was released in 1970, directed by Jack Smight and starring Creator/JamesCaan as Rabbit.
WordOfGod says that it was written as a response to ''Literature/OnTheRoad''. A [[TheFilmOfTheBook film adaptation]] was released in 1970, directed by Jack Smight and starring Creator/JamesCaan as Rabbit.
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''Rabbit, Run'' is a 1960 novel by Creator/JohnUpdike. The novel depicts three months in the life of a 26-year-old former high-school basketball player named Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, who's trapped in a loveless marriage and a boring sales job, and his attempts to escape the constraints of his life.
The novel depicts three months in the life of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, a 26-year-old former high-school basketball player from Brewer, Pennsylvania who is trapped in a loveless marriage and a boring sales job, and his attempts to escape the constraints of his life.
WordOfGod says thatit this was written as a in response to ''Literature/OnTheRoad''. A [[TheFilmOfTheBook film adaptation]] was released in 1970, directed by Jack Smight and starring Creator/JamesCaan as Rabbit.
Rabbit. Updike later featured the character in three additional novels (''Rabbit Redux'', ''Rabbit Is Rich'', and ''Rabbit at Rest'').
The novel depicts three months in the life of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, a 26-year-old former high-school basketball player from Brewer, Pennsylvania who is trapped in a loveless marriage and a boring sales job, and his attempts to escape the constraints of his life.
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''Rabbit, Run'' is a 1960 novel by Creator/JohnUpdike. The novel depicts three months in the life of a 26-year-old former high-school basketball player named Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, who is trapped in a loveless marriage and a boring sales job, and his attempts to escape the constraints of his life.
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''Rabbit, Run'' is a 1960 novel by Creator/JohnUpdike. The novel depicts three months in the life of a 26-year-old former high-school basketball player named Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, who is who's trapped in a loveless marriage and a boring sales job, and his attempts to escape the constraints of his life.
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'''''Rabbit, Run''''' is a 1960 novel by Creator/JohnUpdike. The novel depicts three months in the life of a 26-year-old former high-school basketball player named Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, who is trapped in a loveless marriage and a boring sales job, and his attempts to escape the constraints of his life. WordOfGod says that it was written as a response to ''Literature/OnTheRoad''.
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''Rabbit, Run'' is a 1960 novel by Creator/JohnUpdike. The novel depicts three months in the life of a 26-year-old former high-school basketball player named Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, who is trapped in a loveless marriage and a boring sales job, and his attempts to escape the constraints of his life.
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'''''Rabbit, Run''''' is a 1960 novel by Creator/JohnUpdike. The novel depicts three months in the life of a 26-year-old former high-school basketball player named Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, who is trapped in a loveless marriage and a boring sales job, and his attempts to escape the constraints of his life. WordOfGod says that it was written as a response to Literature/OnTheRoad.
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'''''Rabbit, Run''''' is a 1960 novel by Creator/JohnUpdike. The novel depicts three months in the life of a 26-year-old former high-school basketball player named Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, who is trapped in a loveless marriage and a boring sales job, and his attempts to escape the constraints of his life. WordOfGod says that it was written as a response to Literature/OnTheRoad.''Literature/OnTheRoad''.
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'''''Rabbit, Run''''' is a 1960 novel by Creator/JohnUpdike. The novel depicts three months in the life of a 26-year-old former high-school basketball player named Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, who is trapped in a loveless marriage and a boring sales job, and his attempts to escape the constraints of his life. WordOfGod says that it was written as a response to Literature/OnTheRoad.
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* EverytownAmerica: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]]. As Updike noted, "My subject is the American Protestant small-town middle class. I like middles. It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules."
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'''''Rabbit, Run''''' is a 1960 novel by Creator/JohnUpdike. The novel depicts three months in the life of a 26-year-old former high-school basketball player named Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, who is trapped in a loveless marriage and a boring sales job, and his attempts to escape the constraints of his life.
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* GloryDays: Rabbit is a former basketball star who peaked in high school.
* SoulSuckingRetailJob: Rabbit works in a department store, selling a kitchen gadget called the [=MagiPeeler=].
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!! ''Rabbit, Run'' contains examples of
* GloryDays: Rabbit is a former basketball star who peaked in high school.
* SoulSuckingRetailJob: Rabbit works in a department store, selling a kitchen gadget called the [=MagiPeeler=].
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