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The Poorhouse Fair: Penguin Modern Classics

Autor John Updike
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mai 2006
At the Diamond County Home for the Aged, the inmates prepare for the annual ritual of the Poorhouse Fair. The elderly residents take pride in the self-respect they gain from this one day. But when the fair goes less well than the folks had hoped, they blame Conner, the new prefect of the home. Together, they begin to revolt against the man.
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ISBN-13: 9780141188485
ISBN-10: 0141188480
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.13 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Seria Penguin Modern Classics

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He is the author of over fifty books, includingThe Poorhouse Fair;the Rabbit series (Rabbit, Run;Rabbit Redux;Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest);Marry Me;The Witches of Eastwick,which was made into a major feature film;Memories of the Ford Administration; Brazil; In the Beauty of the Lilies;Toward the End of Time;Gertrude and Claudius;andSeek My Face.He has written a number of collections of short stories, includingThe Afterlife and Other StoriesandLicks of Love, which includes a final Rabbit story,Rabbit Remembered.His essays and criticism first appeared in publications such as theNew Yorkerand theNew York Review of Books, and are now collected into numerous volumes.Collected Poems 1953-1993brings together almost all of his verse, and a new edition of hisSelected Poemsis forthcoming from Hamish Hamilton.

His novels, stories, and non-fiction collections have won have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the American Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Award and the Howells Medal.

Updike graduated from Harvard College in 1954, and spent a year at Oxford's Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of staff at the New Yorker, and he lived in Massachusetts from 1957 until his death in January 2009.