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Poorhouse Fair by John Updike (1977, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100394410505
ISBN-139780394410500
eBay Product ID (ePID)1051505
Product Key Features
Book TitlePoorhouse Fair
Number of Pages208 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPsychological, Visionary & Metaphysical, Literary
Publication Year1977
FeaturesReprint
GenreFiction
AuthorJohn Updike
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight11.8 Oz
Item Length8.1 in
Item Width5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN76-021156
Dewey Edition19
Reviews"A first novel of rare precision and real merit . . . a rich poorhouse indeed." --Newsweek "Turning on a narrow plot of ground, it achieves the rarity of bounded, native truth, and comes forth as microcosm." --Commonweal "Brilliant . . . Here is the conflict of real ideas; of real personalities; here is a work of intellectual imagination and great charity. The Poorhouse Fair is a work of art." -- The New York Times Book Review
Dewey Decimal813/.54
Edition DescriptionReprint
SynopsisThe first novel from a master of American letters and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series: "Brilliant...Here is the conflict of real ideas; of real personalities; here is a work of intellectual imagination and great charity. The Poorhouse Fair is a work of art."-- The New York Times Book Review The hero of John Updike's first novel, published when the author was twenty-six, is ninety-four-year-old John Hook, a dying man who yet refuses to be dominated. His world is a poorhouse--a county home for the aged and infirm--overseen by Stephen Conner, a righteous young man who considers it his duty to know what is best for others. The action of the novel unfolds over a single summer's day, the day of the poorhouse's annual fair, a day of escalating tensions between Conner and the rebellious Hook. Its climax is a contest between progress and tradition, benevolence and pride, reason and faith. Appended with a discussion of the book's inspiration, its aesthetic sources and models in classics of science fiction, and the way in which its future (projected to be about 1977) compares with the present. The Poorhouse Fair was written in 1957 and published in January of 1959. It was hailed at the time of its publication as "a rare and beautiful achievement" and "a work of intellectual imagination and great charity." Though its future has degenerated into our present, and Updike's later work is better known, such critics as Henry Bech have hailed this little novel as, still, "surely his masterpiece.", The Poorhouse Fair, John Updike's first novel, was written in 1957 and published in January of 1959. For this, its sixth printing, the author has appended an introduction discussing the book's inspiration, its aesthetic sources and models in classics of science fiction, and the way in which its future (projected to be about 1977) compares with the present. The Poorhouse Fair was hailed at the time of its publication as "a rare and beautiful achievement" and "a work of intellectual imagination and great charity." Though its future has degenerated into our present, and Updike's later work is better known, such critics as Henry Bech have hailed this little novel as, still, "surely his masterpiece."
LC Classification NumberPZ4.U64Po8
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