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The first book in his awardwinning '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 twentysix he is trapped in a secondrate 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 thousandmile journey that he hopes will free him from his mediocre life. Because, as he knows only too well, 'after you've been firstrate at something, no matter what, it kind of takes the kick out of being secondrate'.
'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 crystalbright rose, Updike makes Rabbit's sorrow his and our own' Washington Post
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