| The Poorhouse Fair Contributor(s): Updike, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0394410505 ISBN-13: 9780394410500 Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $27.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 1977 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Psychological - Fiction | Visionary & Metaphysical |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 76021156 |
| Physical Information: 0.87" H x 5.3" W x 8.26" (0.73 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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." |