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Escaping a mediocre life.

Rabbit, Run is a powerful portrait of a man who feels trapped in a life he doesn't want. If you enjoy exploring the complex inner life of characters, you will find yourself invested in Rabbit's journey. Updike's prose crackles with tension and bleak beauty, making Rabbit's sense of isolation palpable. Rabbit's story is a poignant reminder that even when we try to run from our past and our present, we can't always escape from ourselves.

  • National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1961)
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Rabbit, Run

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ISBN: 9780141187839
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date of Publication: 2018-06-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Contemporary, Literary Fiction
Related Topics: Literature, Classics
Goodreads rating: 3.58
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An older cover for this ISBN may be found here.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 flees 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'.
 

Escaping a mediocre life.

Rabbit, Run is a powerful portrait of a man who feels trapped in a life he doesn't want. If you enjoy exploring the complex inner life of characters, you will find yourself invested in Rabbit's journey. Updike's prose crackles with tension and bleak beauty, making Rabbit's sense of isolation palpable. Rabbit's story is a poignant reminder that even when we try to run from our past and our present, we can't always escape from ourselves.

  • National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1961)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.