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Updike's legendary rejoinder to Jack Kerouac's \u003ci\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRabbit, Run\u003c\/i\u003e (1960) introduces us to the author's most enduring protagonist, Harry Rabbit Angstrom, a onetime high-school basketball star who, on an impulse, deserts his wife and son, with tragic consequences. \u003ci\u003eThe Centaur\u003c\/i\u003e, a comic-tragic father-son novel that mixes memory and myth, won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1964. The novella \u003ci\u003eOf the Farm\u003c\/i\u003e (1965) is one of Updike's loveliest performances, a kind of chamber music for four voices set during a single memorable weekend. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLIBRARY OF AMERICA\u003c\/b\u003e is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. 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