The poorhouse fair.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 1959
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
Subjects: Older people -- Fiction.; Poor -- Fiction.; Almshouses -- Fiction.; Fairs -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "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."