| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780449911655 | | Publisher: Fawcett Crest | | Publish Date: 8/1/1996 | | Buy.com Sku: 30071070 | | Item#: RHL9Y4 | | Dimensions (in Inches) 8.5H x 5.75L x 0.75T |
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| | | Harry Angstrom was a star basketball player in high school and that was the best time of his life. Now in his mid-20s, his work is unfulfilling, his marriage is moribund, and he tries to find happiness with another woman. But happiness is more elusive than a medal, and Harry must continue to run--from his wife, his life, and from himself, until he reaches the end of the road and has to turn back....
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The highly acclaimed saga of desire and regret, first published in 1959. Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom is typically Middle American--a small-town Protestant, a former basketball star, a married man intent on making a name for himself in the community--whose life begins to unravel when he falls in love and deserts his wife. Caught between his sense of duty and his intimations of life's real depth, he is unable to commit himself to one or the other.
| PraiseCommonweal
"['Rabbit, Run'] is a minor epic of the spirit thirsting for room to discover and be itself, ducking, dodging, staying out of reach of everything that will pin it down and impale it on fixed, immutable laws that are not of its own making and do not consider its integrity." - Richard Gilman 10/28/1960Nation
"Carefully written and literary in the sense that it is a story which has been told and retold a dozen times....It is that kind of work in which the ingredients (including three ounces of earthly dialogue and a heaping big spoonful of compassion) are consciously added as though preparing a small stew, and the canisters from which they are drawn are the past works of a hundred hands." - Terry Southern 11/19/1960 New York Times Book Review
"A notable triumph of intelligence and compassion; it has none of the glib condescension that spoils so many books of this type." - David Boroff 11/06/1960 Saturday Review
"From now on Updike has to be regarded as one of our important young novelists, a powerful writer with his own vision of the world." - Granville Hicks 11/05/1960 |
| Author Bio| John Updike | | John Updike, the son of a schoolteacher father and a mother who wanted to be a writer, was raised in Reading, Pennsylvania--a town not unlike Brewer, where, many years later, he situated his famous character, Rabbit Angstrom. Updike graduated from Harvard, where he nourished "an un-Harvardian desire to be a cartoonist," as he put it in an interview, and where he was turned down "repeatedly" for Archibald MacLeish's writing class. He was also editor of Harvard's famous humor magazine, the Lampoon. After college, Updike worked for a few years on the staff of The New Yorker before he began publishing fiction. He is the author of over 50 books, including not only novels but collections of short stories, poems, and criticism--even children's books. His novels have been almost invariably critical and popular successes, and his tetralogy about Rabbit Angstrom (RABBIT, RUN; RABBIT REDUX; RABBIT IS RICH; RABBIT AT REST) has assured him a prominent place in American literary history. Updike is a disciplined writer who has said that he can't enjoy the rest of the day until he's written at least a thousand words. Considered one of the masters of contemporary fiction, he has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the American Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Updike is the father of four children and has been married twice. He died in 2009 from lung cancer. |
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