Rabbit, Run Condition:Like New captured in the Amazon

captured in the Amazon

if you dare

Publication Date: 24 Apr 2003

Joyce Carol Oates probes the contemporary tragedy of ethnic hatred and challenges our accepted limits of desire

a cynical foreign correspondent

Rabbit, Run Condition:Like New captured in the AmazonAn older cover for this ISBN may be found here. It's 1959 and Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, one time high school sports superstar, is going nowhere. At twenty six he is trapped in a second rate existence stuck with a fragile alcoholic wife, a house full of overflowing ashtrays and discarded glasses, a young son and a futile job. With no way to fix things, he flees his family and his home in Pennsylvania, beginning a thousand mile journey that he hopes will