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The poorhouse fair

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An edition of The poorhouse fair (1958)

The poorhouse fair

New ed / with an introduction by the author.

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  • 2 Want to read

"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."

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Knopf , distributed by Random House
Language
English
Pages
185

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Subjects

Fiction, Poor, Almshouses, Fairs, Older people, Middle class men, Harry Angstrom (Fictitious character), Psychological fiction, General, American fiction, Male authors, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, psychological

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The poorhouse fair
2004, Ballantine Books
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1977, Knopf , distributed by Random House
in English - New ed / with an introduction by the author.
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Cover of: The poorhouse fair.
The poorhouse fair.
1959, Knopf
in English - [1st ed.]
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First published 1959.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.5/4
Library of Congress
PS3571.P4, PZ4.U64 Po8, PS3571.P4 Po8, PZ4.U64Po8

The Physical Object

Pagination
xx, 185 p. ;
Number of pages
185

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL21358273M
ISBN 10
0394410505
LCCN
76021156
OCLC/WorldCat
2890911, 612260824, 612260832
Library Thing
262246
Amazon ID (ASIN)
Goodreads
1047696

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