Bob's Home Library
Summary:
Tags: [CNTY:USA, ZDC:YWSJ]
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'.