Catalog / Rabbit, Run
Rabbit, Run
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John Updike
Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom flees married life and tries to escape the responsibilities closing in on him. The novel watches frustration, desire, and postwar American society.
- First publication
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Original language
- English
- ISBN-10
- 0449911650
- ISBN-13
- 9780449911655
- ASIN
- 0449911659
Why was Rabbit, Run challenged?
Rabbit, Run by John Updike is in this catalog because a sourced record documents an at-risk action in United States in 1976. The novel was restricted in Maine high schools and removed from a required reading list in Wyoming for its sexual scenes and language.
The catalog records the scope as school. That is not a claim that the book is banned everywhere, or that a failed complaint has the same force as a prohibition. Open the sources under Bans and restrictions. Unsourced rumors are omitted.
Readers who search “why was Rabbit, Run banned” should read the status label first. Banned, restricted, and at risk are defined on the methodology page and are not interchangeable.
Bans and restrictions
At risk · School
The novel was restricted in Maine high schools and removed from a required reading list in Wyoming for its sexual scenes and language.
School restrictions documented by the ALA.
- Source → Banned & Challenged Classics American Library Association
Other questions
- Is Rabbit, Run banned?
- In this catalog the primary documented status is “at risk” in United States, 1976. That is not a worldwide ban. Scope and sources are listed below.
- Why was Rabbit, Run challenged?
- The novel was restricted in Maine high schools and removed from a required reading list in Wyoming for its sexual scenes and language.
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