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Rabbit, run

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Description: Twenty-two-year-old Rabbit Angstrom is a salesman in a local department store, father of a preschool-age son, and husband to an alcoholic wife who was his second-best high school sweetheart. The squalor and tragedy of their lives reminds us that salvation is a personal undertaking.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1960.
Call number: 433440
Creator: Updike, John(Opens in new tab)
ISBN: 0449911659; 9780449911655; 0394442067; 9780394442068
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Rabbit is rich

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The protagonist of John Updike's Rabbit, Run (1960), ten years after the hectic events described in Rabbit Redux (1971), has come to enjoy considerable prosperity as Chief Sales Representative of Springer Motors, a Toyota agency in Brewer, Pennsylvania. The time is 1979: Skylab is falling, gas lines are lengthening, the President collapses while running in a marathon, and double-digit inflation coincides with a deflation of national confidence. Nevertheless, Harry Angstrom feels in good shape, ready to enjoy life at last-- until his son, Nelson, returns from the West, and the image of an old love pays a visit to his lot. New characters and old populate these scenes from Rabbit's middle age, as he continues to pursue, in his erratic fashion, the rainbow of happiness.

477623

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Rabbit redux

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In this sequel to Rabbit, Run, it is 1969 and the times are changing in America. Things just aren't as simple as they used to be for Rabbit Angstrom. His wife leaves him, and suddenly, into his confused life comes Jill, a runaway who becomes his lover. But when she invites her friend to stay, a young black radical named Skeeter, the pair's fragile harmony soon begins to fail.

431749

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The poorhouse fair : Rabbit, run

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442694

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Photographs of a Northern California rabbit drive, haying, and Yosemite stage coach

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Copy prints of early 20th century photographs of scenes, presumably in Northern California, consisting of three images of a rabbit drive including one of with men, women, and children, gathered around hundreds of dead rabbits (photPF 20016-20018); one photograph showing haying operations (photPF 20019), and one image of an open horse-drawn stage with passengers in the Yosemite Valley, with the wagon labeled "Yosemite Transportation Co." (photPF 20020). The photographer is unidentified.

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S.H. Kress Store, 254 East Colorado, Pasadena. 1936

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View of the interior of the S.H. Kress Store at 254 East Colorado. Merchandise is arranged on wood counters inside a large, high-ceilinged room. Easter displays include baskets both filled and empty, rabbit and chicken shaped items, and spools of thread arranged in the shape of a cross.

photCL 402 (35361)

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Darius. Tragedy, 5 acts. Thomas Stratford (?)

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No application. Prod. D.L., 1784 (?). MS. J.P.C. in B.D.: 'Darius a Tragedy-Acted at Drury Lane-The Managers letter signed Thomas Linley 1784. L.L. This is no doubt Dr. Stratfords Tragedy... but the MS, among Larpent's Plays, gives no further information. (See B.D., II, 153.)

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