The first book in the award-winning "Rabbit" series by John Updike, Rabbit, Run, includes an afterword by the author in the Penguin Modern Classics edition.
In 1959, Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, a former high school sports star, finds himself at a dead end. At the age of twenty-six, he is trapped in a second-rate existence—with a fragile, alcoholic wife, a house full of overflowing ashtrays and abandoned glasses, a young son, and a futile job. With no way to make things right, he decides to escape from his family and home in Pennsylvania, embarking on a thousand-mile journey he hopes will liberate him from his mediocre life.
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 part of the editorial 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 writers to have won more than one Pulitzer Prize. His most famous works are the Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom series, all published by Penguin Modern Classics: Rabbit, Run (1960), Rabbit Redux (1971), Rabbit is Rich (1981), and Rabbit at Rest (1990).
If you liked Rabbit, Run, you might be interested in Americana by Don DeLillo, also available from Penguin Modern Classics.
"It's sexy, in bad taste, violent, and basically cynical. And good luck with it" - Angus Wilson, Observer
"This special brilliance, this genius? Updike is among the best" - Malcolm Bradbury
"Stunning and moving ... Through compassion, clarity of thought, and crystalline rose vision, [Updike] makes Rabbit's sorrow his own and ours" - Washington Post
Pages: 288, Dimensions: 13x13cm
