{"product_id":"rabbit-run-john-updike","title":"Rabbit, Run (John Updike)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first book in his award-winning 'Rabbit' series, John Updike's \u003ci\u003eRabbit, Run\u003c\/i\u003e contains an afterword by the author in Penguin Modern Classics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt's 1959 and Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, one time high school sports superstar, is going nowhere. At twenty-six he is trapped in a second-rate existence - stuck with a fragile, alcoholic wife, a house full of overflowing ashtrays and discarded glasses, a young son and a futile job. With no way to fix things, he resolves to flee from his family and his home in Pennsylvania, beginning a thousand-mile journey that he hopes will free him from his mediocre life. Because, as he knows only too well, 'after you've been first-rate at something, no matter what, it kind of takes the kick out of being second-rate'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Updike (1932-2009) was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954, and spent a year at Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of staff at \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e. Updike was the author of twenty-one novels as well as numerous collections of short stories, poems and criticism, and is one of only three authors to win more than one Pulitzer Prize. His most famous works are the Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom series, all of which are published in Penguin Modern Classics: R\u003ci\u003eabbit, Run\u003c\/i\u003e (1960), \u003ci\u003eRabbit Redux\u003c\/i\u003e (1971), \u003ci\u003eRabbit is Rich \u003c\/i\u003e(1981) and\u003ci\u003e Rabbit at Rest\u003c\/i\u003e (1990).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you enjoyed \u003ci\u003eRabbit, Run\u003c\/i\u003e, you might like Don DeLillo's \u003ci\u003eAmericana\u003c\/i\u003e, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'It is sexy, in bad taste, violent and basically cynical. And good luck to it'\u003cbr\u003eAngus Wilson, \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'That special polish, that brilliance; Updike is among the best'\u003cbr\u003eMalcolm Bradbury\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Brilliant and poignant ... By his compassion, clarity of insight, and crystal-bright rose, [Updike] makes Rabbit's sorrow his and our own'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He is the author of over fifty books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Poorhouse Fair;\u003c\/i\u003e the Rabbit series (\u003ci\u003eRabbit, Run;\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eRabbit Redux\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eRabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest\u003c\/i\u003e); \u003ci\u003eMarry Me;\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Witches of Eastwick,\u003c\/i\u003e which was made into a major feature film; \u003ci\u003eMemories of the Ford Administration; Brazil; In the Beauty of the Lilies;\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eToward the End of Time;\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eGertrude and Claudius;\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSeek My Face. \u003c\/i\u003eHe has written a number of collections of short stories, including \u003ci\u003eThe Afterlife and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLicks of Love\u003c\/i\u003e, which includes a final Rabbit story, \u003ci\u003eRabbit Remembered. \u003c\/i\u003eHis essays and criticism first appeared in publications such as the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker \u003c\/i\u003eand the \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, and are now collected into numerous volumes. \u003ci\u003eCollected Poems 1953-1993 \u003c\/i\u003ebrings together almost all of his verse, and a new edition of his \u003ci\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e is forthcoming from Hamish Hamilton.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis novels, stories, and non-fiction collections have won have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the PEN\/Faulkner Award, the American Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Award and the Howells Medal. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUpdike graduated from Harvard College in 1954, and spent a year at Oxford's Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of staff at the N\u003ci\u003eew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, and he lived in Massachusetts from 1957 until his death in January 2009.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-format, Englisch, 288 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65812304462173,"sku":"K022236837","price":11.6,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/2223683700001A.jpg?v=1788531059","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/rabbit-run-john-updike","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}