John Updike (1932–2009) was an American novelist, poet, and short-story writer, best known for the Rabbit tetralogy beginning with Rabbit, Run (1960).

Born in Reading, Pennsylvania (1932) and died in 2009. Author of the Rabbit series (starting with Rabbit, Run, 1960). Renowned writer of novels, short stories, and poetry in 20th-century American literature.

The available DeBaser review presents Rabbit, Run as an important, enduring novel and the first of John Updike's Rabbit tetralogy. The reviewer praises its cultural reach and examines the protagonist's existential stagnation and suburban milieu. Stylistically the review finds Updike's approach subdued but lucid, emphasizing inevitability as a central theme.

For:Readers of literary fiction, students, book-club members, and scholars of 20th-century American literature

 This novel by John Updike, the first in a series of four stories dedicated to the same character and which constitute the core of his literary work, is what can rightfully be called an 'important' book.

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