![]() He checks in with his old basketball coach, looking for guidance. Instead, he lives in the next town over and without a backward glance, starts a new life. He does return back to the area but not to his home. As he drives out of town and then through several states well into the dark night, the sense of freedom makes Rabbit ecstatic. One day, Rabbit gets fed up with his life and with Janice, and when he goes out to pick up their son from his grandparents' house, he just keeps driving. He's working as a salesman for a kitchen peeler, is married to Janice, and has a toddler son and another baby on the way. After a stint in the Army stationed in Texas, Rabbit is now back in his hometown in eastern Pennsylvania. Life's been pretty much downhill since then. Twenty-six-year-old Harry Angstrom is known as Rabbit and was a high school basketball star. I'd love to hear from other readers if I should read more of the series! ![]() ![]() It was interesting and engaging, though I did have some mixed feelings about it. I finally read this modern classic last month. I had never read anything by John Updike and wanted to, so for Christmas my husband gave me Rabbit, Run, the first novel in Updike's famed Rabbit series. ![]()
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