Rabbit, Run

Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom is dissatisfied with both his failure to find a career and with his loveless marriage to Janice, an alcoholic who is pregnant with a child neither of them wants. Rabbit looks up his old basketball coach Marty Tothero, who is now living in squalor, and introduces him to Ruth, a part-time prostitute. When Rabbit moves in with Ruth, Jack Eccles, the family minister, tries to persuade him to return to his wife, but Rabbit refuses. Janice resumes her solitary drinking, this time with tragic results; while in a drunken stupor, she accidentally