Rabbit, Run lauded for literary mastery

Screen Shot 2016-07-25 at 8.24.48 AMBrian Hancock, writing for the Franklin Favorite, called Rabbit, Run a lesson in literary mastery.”

Rabbit, Run is a fine display of Updike’s masterful grip on prose. Incredibly creative similes and metaphors are employed throughout the work, to the point where the novel becomes a literacy lesson in itself.

“It’s not just the prose where Updike succeeds, though, but through narrative disguise as well. Rabbit, who initially appears to be a lovable little character, perhaps isn’t what the reader first thought at all,” he writes.

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