About the book: year / “Rabbit, Run” is the first novel in the tetralogy about Harry Engstrom, nicknamed Rabbit, Updike’s original opus magnus, on which he worked intermittently for thirty years. The story of the “rebellion of the average American.” Harry is by no means an intellectual, not a nonconformist, not a subversive of the fundamentals. It’s just that the very reality of his everyday life is such that the seeds of discontent are latently, imperceptibly ripening in him, which one day will turn into “grapes of wrath.” Protest is undoubtedly doomed. However, even doomed to failure is preferable to inaction for the Rabbit.…