John Updike
1) Rabbit, run
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An allegory of freedom versus responsibility, in which twenty-six year old Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom is tired of marriage and the responsibilities that life entails and leaves his pregnant wife.
6) Villages
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From his childhood in eastern Pennsylvania in the 1930s to his retirement years in Haskells Crossing, Massachusetts, Owen Mackenzie finds his life irrevocably altered by the communal humanity of the small towns in which he lives.
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Marry Me is subtitled “A Romance” because, in the author’s words, “people don’t act like that anymore.” The time is 1962, and the place is a fiefdom of Camelot called Greenwood, Connecticut. Jerry Conant and Sally Mathias are in love and want to get married, though they already are married to others. A diadem of five symmetrical chapters describes the course of their affair as it flickers off and on, and...
11) Rabbit is rich
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His son's return and reminders of a former romance threaten "Rabbit" Harry Angstrom's comfortable new prosperity.