Does anyone have rabbits in their yard?

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I see a rabbit and it makes me say Run Rabbit Run!

What does that have to do with the daily special you ask? Well, it is John Updike's birthday and we celebrate that by offering 20% off our general fiction section today! When a book is not a romance, mystery, fantasy or sci fi title, you will find it in the "general" fiction section! Hundreds to choose from and a bottomless supply to restock, so shop this section today!

 

open until 6pm and then you walk across to the coffee shop and listen to live music beginning at 7pm! They just had their ribbon cutting this morning and wow, what a turn out! Lots of excitement in the air today! I hope you can join us there!

John Updike's "Rabbit" Series

 

a book list by Peter, the avid reader who runs Flashlight Worthy

shelved under Fiction and Rest In PeaceIf you ask someone to name a John Updike novel, odds are that he or she will name one of his "Rabbit" novels. And no wonder — two of the four won the Pulitzer Prize.

 

For those who never came across one of these in high school, college, or on their own, they chronicle the adult life of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, a faded high school basketball star who's trying to make sense of the realities of adulthood.

 

In reference to the series, Updike once wrote ''to me [it] is the tale of a life, a life led by an American citizen who shares the national passion for youth, freedom, and sex, the national openness and willingness to learn, the national habit of improvisation. He is furthermore a Protestant, haunted by a God whose manifestations are elusive, yet all-important.''

 

P.S. I'm fairly sure that Faulkner was the only other novelist to win the Pulitzer Prize twice — but don't quote me on that.

 

Rabbit, Run (1960)

by John Updike

 

Chris Connaughton from Hampshire, UK says:

 

It's been years since I first read this, but it sticks in the mind forever. Updike succeeds in recreating a period of long gone American society in flawless details, yet like all good writing it still seems up-to-the-minute incisive and relevant.

 

The central character could have invented the term "Everyman", and his struggles, tragedies and small triumphs are as heartwarming, frustrating, terrifying and hilarious as life itself. Heartily recommended for those looking for a way in to the late, great John Updike.

 

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