John Updike's "The Poorhouse Fair" as a Celebration of Inertia
Author : Rita Stefanutti
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Page : 106 pages
File Size : 35,23 MB
Release : 1991
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Author : Rita Stefanutti
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Page : 106 pages
File Size : 35,23 MB
Release : 1991
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Author : John Updike
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,16 MB
Release : 1977-02-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0394410505
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.”
Author : Alfred A. Knopf, Inc
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Page : 67 pages
File Size : 49,92 MB
Release : 1958
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Author : John Updike
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Page : 67 pages
File Size : 35,19 MB
Release : 1958
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Author : John Updike
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Page : pages
File Size : 48,32 MB
Release : 1944
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Author : John Updike
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Page : 435 pages
File Size : 14,70 MB
Release : 1960
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Author : John Updike
Publisher : Herb Yellin
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 15,6 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780935716924
Author : John McGahern
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 47,1 MB
Release : 1991-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0140092552
Michael Moran is an old Irish Republican whose life was forever transformed by his days of glory as a guerrilla leader in the Irish War of Independence. Moran is till fighting—with his family, his friends, and even himself—in this haunting testimony to the enduring qualities of the human spirit.
Author : John Updike
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Page : 90 pages
File Size : 34,9 MB
Release : 1977
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Author : Martin Amis
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 27,66 MB
Release : 2011-01-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0307777790
A tantalizing collection of classic essays from one of the most gifted writers of his generation. • "The brainy, sarcastic, tender intelligence at the center of these pieces can make you laugh out loud: they can also move you to tears." —People Martin Amis brings the same megawatt wit, wickedly acute perception, and ebullient wordplay that characterize his novels. He encompasses the full range of contemporary politics and culture (high and low) while also traveling to China for soccer with Elton John and to London's darts-crazy pubs in search of the perfect throw. Throughout, he offers razor-sharp takes on such subjects as: American politics: "If history is a nightmare from which we are trying to awake, then the Reagan era can be seen as an eight-year blackout. Numb, pale, unhealthily dreamless: eight years of Do Not Disturb." Chess: "Nowhere in sport, perhaps in human activity, is the gap between the tryer and the expert so astronomical.... My chances of a chess brilliancy are the 'chances' of a lab chimp and a type writer producing King Lear." "His fascination with the observable world is utterly promiscuous: he will address a cathedral and a toilet seat with the same peeled-eyeball intensity." —John Updike