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Rabbit, Run by John Updike is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Rabbit, Run about?

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'.### Review“Brilliant and poignant . . . By his compassion, clarity of insight, and crystal-bright prose, [John Updike] makes Rabbit’s sorrow his and our own.”—*The Washington Post*“The power of the novel comes from a sense, not absolutely unworthy of Thomas Hardy, that the universe hangs over our fates like a great sullen hopeless sky. There is real pain in the book, and a touch of awe.”—Norman Mailer, *Esquire*“A lacerating story of loss and of seeking, written in prose that is charged with emotion but is always held under impeccable control.”—*Kansas City Star*### From the PublisherI

Who reads Rabbit, Run?

Author

John Updike

Publisher

Penguin Books, Limited (UK)

Published

1960

Language

EN

ISBN

9780141187839

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Psychological

Rating

3.57 / 5 (679 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14