# Rabbit, Run

Canonical: https://www.bookquiver.com/john-updike/rabbit-run/9780141187839

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- Book: [Rabbit, Run](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-updike/rabbit-run) ([Rabbit, Run.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-updike/rabbit-run.md))
- Authors: [John Updike](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-updike)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4118-783-9
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2006-06-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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'.