John Updike - The Poorhouse Fair
| | Price Range: | $30 | | Key Features: | Release Date: February 01, 1977 | Updike's first novel describes the annual fair staged by the elderly inhabitants of a New Jersey poorhouse. Although everything proceeds along traditional and unremarkable lines for most of the afternoon, a protest suddenly breaks out and threatens to overwhelm the young director of the home. |
| Key Information |
| Authors | John Updike |
| Fiction Genre | Current Events • Juvenile Fiction |
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| Professional Reviews |
| Professional Reviews | Commonweal: "Updike writes deeply and with a sensitivity that makes the usual best-selling novel appear insufferably vulgar and unseeing." |
| Book Editions |
| Book Editions | HardcoverFebruary 01, 1977Random House Inc8.25"(h) x 5.25"(w) x 1"(d), 0.8 lbs.9780394410500 |
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