The poorhouse fair:

"On the third Wednesday of every August the inhabitants of a mansion-turned-poorhouse in central New Jersey hold their annual fair; this novel describes a fair that occurs about twenty years from now, [1958], when the United States itself is heading downhill....While 'The Poorhouse Fair,&#...

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1. Verfasser: Updike, John 1932-2009 (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Knopf 1959
Ausgabe:1. ed.
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Zusammenfassung:"On the third Wednesday of every August the inhabitants of a mansion-turned-poorhouse in central New Jersey hold their annual fair; this novel describes a fair that occurs about twenty years from now, [1958], when the United States itself is heading downhill....While 'The Poorhouse Fair,' insofar as it regrets the decline of patriotism, handcraft, and religion, carries a conservative message, its technique is unorthodox; without so much regard for fictional conventions, the author attempts to locate, in the ambiguous area between farce and melodrama, reality's own tone."
Beschreibung:185 S. 21 cm

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