The Poorhouse Fair by John Updike

The Poorhouse Fair

John Updike

159 pages paperback 1958

6 editions

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John Updike's outstanding debut as a novelist.It's the day of the poorhouse fair, the old people have set up fairy-lights and arranged the stalls in a wavering row. Young Conner the poorhouse prefect is supervising events, unaware that his charges...

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