Rabbit, Run Paperback - 1996

About this book

From the jacket flap

Harry Angstrom was a star basketball player in high school and that was the best time of his life. Now in his mid-20s, his work is unfulfilling, his marriage is moribund, and he tries to find happiness with another woman. But happiness is more elusive than a medal, and Harry must continue to run--from his wife, his life, and from himself, until he reaches the end of the road and has to turn back....

First Edition Identification

First published by Knopf, New York in 1960. Only 10,000 copies were printed of the first edition. The original first edition dust jacket has a $4.00 price stamp and an unattributed, 16-line blurb on the front flap. Later editions had 24 lines attributed to Richard Gilman. 

Media reviews

“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

Citations

• Entertainment Weekly, 09/04/2015, Page 45