{"product_id":"rabbit-run-easton-press-collectors-edition","title":"Rabbit, Run (Easton Press Collector's Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUPDIKE, John.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eRabbit, Run.\u003c\/em\u003e Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1993.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eOctavo. Full Burgundy leather. Spine with raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. Gilt design and lettering to covers. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 307 pp. Collector's Notes laid in. \u003cstrong\u003eCollector's Edition.\u003c\/strong\u003e Originally published New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eJohn Updike (1932–2009) published \u003cem\u003eRabbit, Run\u003c\/em\u003e in 1960, at twenty-eight, and it established him immediately as one of the central novelists of American life in the second half of the twentieth century. He had been writing for \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e since graduating from Harvard summa cum laude in 1954, and the prose style he brought to his first major novel — lyrical, exact, attentive to the surfaces of the physical world in a way that was simultaneously celebratory and melancholy — was unlike anything else in American fiction of the period. Over the following five decades he published more than twenty novels, numerous collections of short stories, poetry, essays, and criticism, and won virtually every honour American letters had to offer, including two Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction — for \u003cem\u003eRabbit Is Rich\u003c\/em\u003e (1982) and \u003cem\u003eRabbit at Rest\u003c\/em\u003e (1991).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eHarry \"Rabbit\" Angstrom is twenty-six years old. He was, in high school, a basketball player of real ability — the kind of player a small Pennsylvania town remembers — and that period of physical grace and social centrality is the best thing that has ever happened to him. Now he works a dead-end sales job, is trapped in a failing marriage to the pregnant Janice, and cannot explain, even to himself, why the life he is living feels like the wrong life. One evening he gets in his car to drive south and simply keeps driving. He cannot get free. He comes back. He goes again. The novel follows three months of this circular flight, and it is as honest an account of a man trying to escape an existence that does not fit him as American fiction has produced.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe Rabbit series that followed — \u003cem\u003eRabbit Redux\u003c\/em\u003e (1971), \u003cem\u003eRabbit Is Rich\u003c\/em\u003e (1981), \u003cem\u003eRabbit at Rest\u003c\/em\u003e (1990), and the novella \u003cem\u003eRabbit Remembered\u003c\/em\u003e (2001) — traced Harry Angstrom across the decades of American life from Eisenhower to the Clinton era, making him one of the most sustained character studies in modern fiction. The Modern Library ranked \u003cem\u003eRabbit, Run\u003c\/em\u003e fourth on its list of the hundred best English-language novels of the twentieth century. The Easton Press Collector's Edition of 1993 presents the complete text as new.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAs new.\u003c\/strong\u003e Removed from publisher's shrinkwrap to verify contents and condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000565\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Updike","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49091570565363,"sku":"1110002990908","price":120.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_fa4f2c65-5f50-4467-879c-e4dcb4947a59.png?v=1779173349","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/rabbit-run-easton-press-collectors-edition","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}