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Yes, the writing has some nice patches, good turns of phrase. One of only four writers to win the pulitzer prize for fiction more than once the others being booth tarkington, william faulkner, and colson whitehead, updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen shortstory collections, as well as. Angstrom, a onetime highschool basketball star who on an impulse deserts his wife and son. Rabbit, run was published in 1960 by american author john updike.