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John Updike • 723 Items / 57 Books, 180 Articles, 357 Reviews, 129 Poems
The Poorhouse Fair (1959)
by John Updike
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Published Reviews
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    Conflict Unresolved (Review)
    David Fitelson
    The Poorhouse Fair, by John Updike
    1. The Poorhouse Fair by John Updike
    Commentary, March 1959, pp. 275-276
  2. Books
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    A Last Assertion of Personal Being (Review)
    Richard Gilman
    The Poorhouse Fair, by John Updike
    1. The Poorhouse Fair by John Updike
    Commonweal, February 6, 1959, p. 499
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    A Slice of Life (Review)
    Peter Salmon
    The Poorhouse Fair, by John Updike
    1. The Poorhouse Fair by John Updike
    The New Republic, January 12, 1959, p. 20
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    Novels (3 Reviews)
    Norman Podhoretz
    Style and Substance
    1. The Pistol by James Jones
    2. The Poorhouse Fair by John Updike
    3. Lady L. by Romain Gary
    The Reporter, January 22, 1959, pp. 42-43
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    Literary Horizons (4 Reviews)
    Granville Hicks
    Novels in Limbo
    1. Juice by Stephen D. Becker
    2. The Width of Waters by Alfred Kern
    3. The Company of Players by Victor Chapin
    4. The Poorhouse Fair by John Updike
    The Saturday Review, January 17, 1959, p. 58
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    Atlantic Bookshelf (5 Reviews)
    Phoebe Adams
    Reader's Choice
    1. The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel by Nikos Kazantzakis
    2. Here, Of All Places! by Osbert Lancaster
    3. The Poorhouse Fair by John Updike
    4. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
    5. The Captive and the Free by Joyce Cary
    The Atlantic Monthly, February 1959, pp. 98-102
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    The New Books (10 Reviews)
    Paul Pickrel
    A Medley, with Some Familiar Themes
    1. The Captive and the Free by Joyce Cary
    2. The Pistol by James Jones
    3. The Poorhouse Fair by John Updike
    4. Mrs. Bridge by Evan S. Connell, Jr.
    5. Young Love by Johannes Allen
    6. The Scientists by Eleazar Lipsky
    7. The Search by C.P. Snow
    8. W. Somerset Maugham by Karl G. Pfeiffer
    9. Suburbia: Its People and Their Politics by Robert Coldwell Wood
    10. The Waist-High Culture by Thomas Griffith
    The Harpers Monthly, February 1959, pp. 109-116