An edition of The poorhouse fair (1958)

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An edition of The poorhouse fair (1958)

The poorhouse fair.

[1st ed.]

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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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Publisher
Knopf
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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Cover of: The poorhouse fair
The poorhouse fair
2004, Ballantine Books
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Cover of: The poorhouse fair.
The poorhouse fair.
1959, Knopf
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New York
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3571.P4 P65 1959, PS3571.P4 P6 1963, PZ4.U64

The Physical Object

Pagination
185 p.
Number of pages
185

Edition Identifiers

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OL6268937M
LCCN
59005431
OCLC/WorldCat
292144
Library Thing
262246

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL463832W

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