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Rabbit, Run is a 1960 novel by John Updike.The novel depicts three months in the life of a 26-year-old former high school basketball player named Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, who is trapped in a loveless marriage and a boring sales job, and attempts to escape the constraints of his life.
It also has a cinema multiplex, which Updike uses as a device to define the era in which each novel is set by frequently listing which films are playing there. [9] Rabbit eventually comes to head the city's Toyota car dealership, inherited by his wife from her father. [8] Brewer is called the "flowerpot city" due to its extensive use of red ...
Rabbit, Run, a 1960 novel by John Updike; Rabbit, Run, a 1970 American independent film based on the Updike novel "Rabbit Run", a song by Eminem from 8 Mile: Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture
Gregor Samsa, from Franz Kafka's novel The Metamorphosis. Dwight Schrute, owner of a paper distribution company from the TV series The Office. Spamton G. Spamton, failed salesman in the video game Deltarune. Jan Spier, a French fries salesman from Marc Sleen's comic The Adventures of Nero. [3]
John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic.One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others being Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, and Colson Whitehead), Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as ...
Rabbit, Run is a 1970 American independent drama film directed by Jack Smight. The film was adapted from John Updike's 1960 novel by screenplay writer Howard B. Kreitsek, who also served as producer. The film starred James Caan as Rabbit Angstrom, Carrie Snodgress as Rabbit's wife Janice, and Anjanette Comer as his girlfriend Ruth.
Barbara Mitchelhill is a children's author of Run Rabbit Run and Road to London in addition to the Damian Drooth series for younger children. She is winner of Solihull Children's Book Award [1] for her book Storm Runners and the Stockton Book of the Year for Run Rabbit Run. "Barbara Mitchelhill was born in Rochdale and trained as a teacher.
Rabbit Redux is a 1971 novel by John Updike. It is the second book in his "Rabbit" series, beginning with Rabbit, Run and followed by Rabbit Is Rich , Rabbit At Rest , published from 1960 to 1990, and the related 2001 novella, Rabbit Remembered .