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 resolves to flee from his family and his home in Pennsylvania, beginning a thousand-mile journey that he hopes will free him from his mediocre life. Because, as he knows only too well, after you've been first-rate at something, no matter what, it kind of takes the kick out of being second-rate'.
| ISBN | 0141187832 | | Pages | 288 | | ISBN13 | 9780141187839
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 214 | | Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Penguin Classics | | Previous ISBN | 9780140243079 | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Publication date | 01 Jun 2006 | | Width (mm) | 129 | | DEWEY | 813.54 | | Spine width (mm) | 17 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | General |
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