Title The poorhouse fair.

Publication Info.	New York, Knopf, [1959 [1958]
	©1958

Copies

Location	Call No.	Status
Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Main Level	FICTION UPDIKE	Check Shelf
Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department	FICTION UPDIKE	Check Shelf
Manchester, Main Library - Basement Materials	UPDIKE, JOHN	Check Shelf

Edition	[1st ed.].
Description	185 pages 21 cm
Summary	"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."
Genre/Form	Psychological fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726481
Subject	Almshouses -- Fiction.
Genre/Form	Psychological fiction.
Subject	Almshouses. (OCoLC)fst00805873
Genre/Form	Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Subject	Fairs -- Fiction.
	Poor -- Fiction.
Genre/Form	Allegories.
Subject	New Jersey -- Fiction.
Local Subject	Poor people -- Fiction.
Subject	Fairs. (OCoLC)fst00919892
	Older people -- Fiction.
	New Jersey. (OCoLC)fst01208379
	Poor. (OCoLC)fst01071040
Genre/Form	Psychological fiction.
Subject	Older people. (OCoLC)fst01199093
Other Form:	Online version: Updike, John. Poorhouse fair. [1st ed.]. New York, Knopf, 1959 [©1958] (OCoLC)609485367

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