Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 919 pages, with index. Second printing before publication. 8vo, light blue cloth with usual Knopf gilt lettering, boards sunned at top and bottom, top edge decoratively tinted red, page-turning soil to bottom edge, front pastedown pasted a little bit over the edge of the board and tanned from previously laid-in newspaper clipping, faint foxing to rough-cut fore-edge, in unclipped DJ with some creases and folds in flaps, wear at top, light soil to back panel. Pages unmarked. Heavy book, may incur shipping surcharge.

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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: Berthoff Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: WBB-506
Title: Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism
Author: John Updike
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st Edition
ISBN 10: 0394531795
ISBN 13: 9780394531793
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1983
Keywords: UPDIKE, ESSAYS, CRITICISM
Bookseller catalogs: Literary criticism; Essays; John Updike;

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