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Description edit
This collection includes 32 interviews given by John Updike to critics, scholars, talk-show hosts, reporters (national, international and local), a religious journal, a school student, and many more. They all combine to form a portrait of a novelist, short story writer and poet.
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Characters/People edit
- John Updike: Add a description of this character.
- Karl Barth
- James Buchanan
- Mailer
- Hawthorne
- Shillington
- Harry Angstrom
- Mary
- Tillich
- Roger
- Joyce
- Salinger
- Van Horne
- Henry Bech
- Nabokov
- Olinger
- Janice
- George Caldwell
- Brewer
- Henry Green
- Ms. Prynne
- Pynchon
- Clinton
- Gore Vidal
- Rabbit
- Kennedy
- Johnson
- Emerson
- Martha
- Henry James
- Conner
- Novak
- Jill
- Angela
- Peter
- Jackson
- Malamud
First Sentence edit
We can think of no better way to start this year than with John Updike's The Poorhouse Fair (Knopf-January).
Authors & Contributors edit
- John Updike (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.52
Subjects edit
- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States › History & Criticism › Literary Theory
- Books › Literature & Fiction › History & Criticism › Criticism & Theory › Semiotics
- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States › Classics
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( U ) › Updike, John
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs
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