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The Poorhouse Fair by John Updike

The Poorhouse Fair

John Updike

176 pages digital 1958

6 editions

fiction reflective sad slow-paced
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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 Con...

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