Title: John Updike : Novels 1959-1965
Description: John Updike had already made a name as a contributor of stories and poems to The New Yorker when, in January 1959, at the age of twenty-six, he published his first novel, The Poorhouse Fair, launching one of the most extraordinary literary careers in American letters. Now, Library of America inaugurates a multi-volume edition of Updike's novels with this volume gathering his first four novels, including the landmark Rabbit, Run, chosen in 2010 by TIME Magazine one of the best 100 novels published in English since 1923.
Subjects: Older people, Fiction, Poor, Fairs, Harry Angstrom (Fictitious character), Middle class men, Grief, Chiron (Greek mythology), Farm life, Families, American fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author)