Book Rec of the Day 3/28/2007

YOU’VE NEVER READ JOHN UPDIKE?

The story of Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom is a towering classic of contemporary literature. Rabbit is a former high school basketball star who, at 26, looks around at his ordinary life and wonders where the glory went. Rabbit, Run recounts his search to recapture it. Updike’s Rabbit Chronicles (Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux ; Rabbit is Rich; and Rabbit at Rest), published between 1960 and 1990, read like a slice of American social history.

RABBIT, RUN, by John Updike (1960; Ballantine Books, 1996)