Title: The poorhouse fair
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."
Subjects: Fiction, Poor, Almshouses, Fairs, Older people, Middle class men, Harry Angstrom (Fictitious character), Psychological fiction, General, American fiction, Male authors, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, psychological