Rabbit, Run av John Updike

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<p>The first book in his award-winning ''Rabbit'' series, John Updike''s <i>Rabbit, Run</i> contains an afterword by the author in Penguin Modern Classics.<br><br>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''.<br><br>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