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The first book in his award-winning ''Rabbit'' series, John Updike''s Rabbit, Run contains an afterword by the author in Penguin Modern Classics.

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''.

John Updike (1932-2009) was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954, and spent a year at Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a

Rabbit Run

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 1 June 2006
      ISBN-13 9780141187839
      978-0141187839
      ISBN-10 0141187832
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      Fiction Contemporary Fiction Books by John Updike

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The first book in his award-winning ''Rabbit'' series, John Updike''s Rabbit, Run contains an afterword by the author in Penguin Modern Classics.

      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''.

      John Updike (1932-2009) was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954, and spent a year at Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a

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