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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.
George Babbitt, in the Sinclair Lewis novel Babbitt. Andy Bernard, on the television series, The Office. Rodney Blackstock, on the soap opera, Emmerdale. Theofiel Boemerang, vacuum cleaner salesman from Willy Vandersteen's comic Suske en Wiske. [1] Al Bundy, shoe salesman on the U.S. television series Married... with Children.
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.
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
Brewer, Pennsylvania is a fictional city that serves as the major setting for American writer John Updike's "Rabbit" cycle of novels (comprising Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, Rabbit at Rest, and Rabbit Remembered, two of which won Pulitzer Prizes for Updike).
This novel is part of the series that follows the life of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom from 1960 to 1990. Rabbit at Rest focuses on the years 1988–89. Harry, nearly 40 years after his glory days as a high school basketball star in a mid-sized Pennsylvania city, has retired with Janice, his wife of 33 years, to sunny Florida during the cold months, where Harry is depressed, dangerously overweight ...
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 .