Hugging the Shore
by John Updike
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near fine/Fine
- Seller
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Princeton, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
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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Details
- Bookseller
- 32.1 Rare Books + Ephemera (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 201078
- Title
- Hugging the Shore
- Author
- John Updike
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1983
- Keywords
- | | | Essays
Terms of Sale
32.1 Rare Books + Ephemera
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.