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Rabbit Run
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 member of staff at "The New Yorker". Updike was the author of twenty-one novels as well as numerous collections of short stories poems and criticism and is one of only three authors to win more than one Pulitzer Prize. His most famous works are the Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom series all of which are published in "Penguin Modern Classics": "Rabbit Run" (1960) "Rabbit Redux" (1971) "Rabbit is Rich" (1981) and "Rabbit at Rest" (1990). If you enjoyed "Rabbit Run" you might like Don DeLillo's "Americana" also available in "Penguin Modern Classics". "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")."
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 member of staff at "The New Yorker". Updike was the author of twenty-one novels as well as numerous collections of short stories poems and criticism and is one of only three authors to win more than one Pulitzer Prize. His most famous works are the Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom series all of which are published in "Penguin Modern Classics": "Rabbit Run" (1960) "Rabbit Redux" (1971) "Rabbit is Rich" (1981) and "Rabbit at Rest" (1990). If you enjoyed "Rabbit Run" you might like Don DeLillo's "Americana" also available in "Penguin Modern Classics". "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")."
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