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Hugging The Shore: Essays And Criticism

Hugging The Shore: Essays And Criticism

Hugging The Shore: Essays And Criticism
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Hugging The Shore: Essays And Criticism

by Updike, John

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ISBN 10
0394531795
ISBN 13
9780394531793
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. 1st. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth with the front cover and spine stamped in silver. The dust jacket shows a bit of shelf wear at the edges.

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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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James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
9025718
Title
Hugging The Shore: Essays And Criticism
Author
Updike, John
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very good
Jacket Condition
very good
Quantity Available
1
Edition
1st
ISBN 10
0394531795
ISBN 13
9780394531793
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1983

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