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by John Updike (Author)
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FROM THE INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR written especially for this edition:
"The character of Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom was for me a way in-a ticket to the America all around me ... [These four related novels] became a kind of running report on the state of my hero and his nation . . . A some point between the second and third of the series, I began to visualize four completed novels that might together make a single coherent volume, a mega-novel. Now, thanks to Everyman's Library, this volume exists, titled, as I had long hoped, with the name of the protagonist, an everyman who, like all men, was unique and mortal."
"Taken together, this quartet of novels has given its readers a wonderfully vivid portrait of one Harry (Rabbit) Angstrom . . . The books have also created a Kodachrome-sharp picture of American life . . . from the somnolent 50s . . . into the uncertainties of the 80s."
--THE NEW YORK TIMES
"The being that most illuminates the Rabbit quartet is not finally Harry Angstrom himself but the world through which he moves in his slow downward slide, meticulously recorded by one of the most gifted American realists . . . The Rabbit novels, for all their grittiness, constitute John Updike's surpassingly eloquent valentine to his country."
--Joyce Carol Oates, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW


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FROM THE INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR written especially for this edition:
“The character of Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom was for me a way in-a ticket to the America all around me … [These four related novels] became a kind of running report on the state of my hero and his nation . . . A some point between the second and third of the series, I began to visualize four completed novels that might together make a single coherent volume, a mega-novel. Now, thanks to Everyman's Library, this volume exists, titled, as I had long hoped, with the name of the protagonist, an everyman who, like all men, was unique and mortal.”

“Taken together, this quartet of novels has given its readers a wonderfully vivid portrait of one Harry (Rabbit) Angstrom . . . The books have also created a Kodachrome-sharp picture of American life . . . from the somnolent 50s . . . into the uncertainties of the 80s.”
—THE NEW YORK TIMES

“The being that most illuminates the Rabbit quartet is not finally Harry Angstrom himself but the world through which he moves in his slow downward slide, meticulously recorded by one of the most gifted American realists . . . The Rabbit novels, for all their grittiness, constitute John Updike's surpassingly eloquent valentine to his country.”
—Joyce Carol Oates, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A true masterpiece from one of America's most gifted writers, Jul 30 1997
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Mr. Updike pulls no punches in this life-story of his not so enviable "protaganist" Rabbit Angstrom. The blemished and bruised soft white underbellies of the characters and the fading American town in which they live are exposed with seemingly effortless skill.

Updike endows his readers with a feeling of voyeuristic privilege: you are given a front-row view into the lives of an American family trying to follow the American dream, but who fall into the same cracks and make the same mistakes that we all have seen or sensed. You feel as if you want to lean forward and whisper into Rabbit's ear, "No, don't do that, really, you don't want to do that," but, alas, you are left to follow the topsy-turvy path he carves through his life, from the Pennsylvania of his youth to the Florida of senior-citizenship.

Almost a tribute to the average American Joe, Updike asks us to look upon the extraordinay commonness of the people about which he writes, and almost dares us to feel superior to them. And in the end, we can't, because the trevails that befall them are the same ones we've all experienced at one time or another. Updike weaves these common experiences into a rich and poignent, if not uplifting, tapestry.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An archeology of the American century, Jan 28 2003
By Andrew N. Weber (Merrick, New York USA) - See all my reviews
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For anyone who has yet to discover these extraordinary, sad. poignant, hilarious novels about the lives of middle class Americans in suburbia, I have this to say: I envy you.

These four novels, each written a different decade (50s, 60s, 70s, 80s) do more than capture the spirit of their era. They mark the changes in our neighborhoods, politics, entertainment and sports.

At the center is Harry Angstrom, a high school basketball star who never finds his niche in life. Harry is selfish, insensitive, yet also heart-breakingly sincere and a kind of protypical American romantic.

These books also are quite [nice] and have some of the best descriptions of sex I have read. And people have this picture of Updike as some boring WASP writer. Nothing could be further from the truth.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great, great books, April 2 2003
By Enrique (bahsten, MA) - See all my reviews
Rabbit, Run is one of the best books of the 20th century and once you get into the tragic life of Rabbit Angstrom, you can't turn back. I dont have Updike's gifts for words, so I cannot describe the book accurately enough, but I can say that it is a mistake if you don't read the book. Read it!
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