Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: Stackpole Books. Zero wear to red paper boards & black cloth quarter binding. Pictorial jacket is mildly worn. Illustrated endpapers, Foreword by Author, Cast of Characters, Afterword, 262 crisp, clean & solid pp. . Like New. Hardcover. Reprint. 2000.

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John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker . His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal. In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Updike died in January 2009.

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Bookseller: Julie's Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 034202
Title: Buchanan Dying: A Play
Author: Updike, John
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: New Like New
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: Reprint
ISBN 10: 0811702383
ISBN 13: 9780811702386
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Place of Publication: Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2000
Keywords: BUCHANAN, JAMES, 1791-1868-DEATH AND BURIAL-DRAMA-PRESIDENTS-UNITED STATES-DRAMA-LITERATURE-PLAYS-UPDIKE, JOHN-"BUCHANAN DYING" Literary Collections & Criticism, History, Biography & Memoirs
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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