Rabbit, Run

Rabbit, Run

by John Updike
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 01/06/2006

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The first book in John Updike's award-winning 'Rabbit' series, with an afterword by the author


It's 1959 and Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, one time high school sports superstar, is going nowhere. At twenty-six he is trapped in a second-rate existence - stuck with a fragile, alcoholic wife, a house full of overflowing ashtrays and discarded glasses, a young son and a futile job. With no way to fix things, he resolves to flee from his family and his home in Pennsylvania, beginning a thousand-mile journey that he hopes will free him from his mediocre life. Because, as he knows only too well, 'after you've been first-rate at something, no matter what, it kind of takes the kick out of being second-rate'.


'It is sexy, in bad taste, violent and basically cynical. And good luck to it'

Angus Wilson, Observer


'That special polish, that brilliance; Updike is among the best'

Malcolm Bradbury


'Brilliant and poignant ... By his compassion, clarity of insight, and crystal-bright rose, [Updike] makes Rabbit's sorrow his and our own'

Washington Post

ISBN:
9780141915142
9780141915142
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
01-06-2006
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
John Updike

John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker.

His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal. In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Updike died in January 2009.

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