title: Rabbit Novels Vol. 1
author:  John Updike 
description: <b>Praise for John Updike<br /><br />RABBIT RUN<br /></b>A lacerating story of loss and of seeking, written in prose that is charged with emotion but is always held under impeccable control.<br /><i>Kansas City Star</i><br /><br />Updikes punch is powerful.<br /><i>Newsweek</i> <br /><br /><br /><b>RABBIT REDUX<br /></b>A superb performance, all grace and dazzle . . . A brilliant portrait of middle America.<br /><i>Life</i><br /><br />A truly fine, dazzling, excellent novel in all its breadth and depth.<br /><i>Miami Herald</i>
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  Forward
  
  “IF THE POWER TO SHOCK MAY
  
  BE TAKEN AS A YARDSTICK OF
  
  FICTION, JOHN UPDIKE HAS
  
  WRITTEN ONE OF THE YEAR’S
  
  MOST IMPORTANT NOVELS …
  
  THE SUREST WRITING IN YEARS.”
  
  —Time Magazine
  
    
  
  RABBIT, RUN is a shocking novel—not only because of its sexual candor, but
  because it challenges an image of life still cherished in America.
  
    
  
  Original, graphic, and merciless, RABBIT, RUN will be admired and hated with
  equal intensity. That it cannot be ignored or read with indifference is a
  tribute to the author’s insight and great gift as a novelist.
  
    
  
  “UPDIKE’S PUNCH IS POWERFUL”
  
  —Newsweek
  
    
  
  The Crest imprint on outstanding books is your
  
  guarantee of informative and entertaining reading
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  John Updike
  
  RABBIT, RUN
  
    
    
    
  
  A Crest Reprint
  
    
    
  
  Fawcett Publications, Inc., Greenwich, Conn.
  
  Member of American Book Publishers Council, Inc.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  A Crest Book published by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
  
  Copyright © 1960 by John Updike. All 