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Villages (Uncorrected Proof)
by UPDIKE, John
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- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Wadsworth, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. First edition. Softcover. 321 pages. Uncorrected proof. Updike's twenty-first novel. A very near fine copy in blue printed wrappers with a small faint crease to the rear panel and with the dust jacket art bound in.
Synopsis
John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker . His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal. In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Updike died in January 2009.
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Details
- Seller
- Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 195893
- Title
- Villages (Uncorrected Proof)
- Author
- UPDIKE, John
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- Literature
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About the Seller
Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA
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Wadsworth, Illinois
About Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA
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