Poorhouse Fair (Hardcover Book)

Poorhouse Fair (Hardcover Book)

USD $30.00 John Updike [Writer] Published by-Knopf Publishing

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About the Poorhouse Fair (Hardcover Book)

The 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.”

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The price of "Poorhouse Fair (Hardcover Book)" at DreamDaze Comics Fun & Games is USD $30.00.

The publisher of "Poorhouse Fair (Hardcover Book)" is Knopf Publishing.

The genres of "Poorhouse Fair (Hardcover Book)" are Fiction - Literary, Fiction - Psychological, and Fiction - Visionary & Metaphysical.

"Poorhouse Fair (Hardcover Book)" falls under the category of Hardcover Books.

The writer of "Poorhouse Fair (Hardcover Book)" is John Updike.