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John Updike: Novels 1959-1965 (LOA #311) : The Poorhouse Fair / Rabbit, Run / the Centaur / of the Farm by John Updike (2018, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherLibrary of America, T.H.E.
ISBN-101598535811
ISBN-139781598535815
eBay Product ID (ePID)15038434759
Product Key Features
Book TitleJohn Updike: Novels 1959-1965 (LOA #311) : The Poorhouse Fair / Rabbit, Run / the Centaur / of the Farm
Number of Pages850 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2018
TopicClassics, Small Town & Rural, Literary
GenreFiction
AuthorJohn Updike
Book SeriesLibrary of America John Updike Edition Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight24.9 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2017-962767
Dewey Edition23
Series Volume Number3
Dewey Decimal813.54
SynopsisLibrary of America launches its definitive multi-volume edition of John Updike's novels with the four early works that signaled the arrival of one of the most gifted young novelists of the 1960s. John Updike had already made a name as a contributor of stories and poems to The New Yorker when, in January 1959, at the age of twenty-six, he published his first novel, The Poorhouse Fair , launching one of the most extraordinary literary careers in American letters. Now, Library of America inaugurates a multi-volume edition of Updike's novels with this volume gathering his first four novels, including the landmark Rabbit, Run , chosen in 2010 by TIME Magazine one of the best 100 novels published in English since 1923. Set in the near future of 1978, The Poorhouse Fair stages a conflict between John Hook, a rebellious ninety-four-year-old former schoolteacher now a resident of a rural poorhouse, and young Mr. Conner, the utilitarian humanist who runs the facility, as an allegory of resistance in a world of systems and efficiencies. Updike's legendary rejoinder to Jack Kerouac's On the Road , Rabbit, Run (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. The Centaur , a comic-tragic father-son novel that mixes memory and myth, won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1964. The novella Of the Farm (1965) is one of Updike's loveliest performances, a kind of chamber music for four voices set during a single memorable weekend. LIBRARY OF AMERICA 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. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
LC Classification NumberPS3571.P4
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