S
by John Updike
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Very Good, slight bump at top of front coner./DJ Very Good, some shelf wear, not clipped
- ISBN 10
- 0394568354
- ISBN 13
- 9780394568355
- Seller
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Nashua, New Hampshire, 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
- YJS BOXES OF BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 661
- Title
- S
- Author
- John Updike
- Format/Binding
- Pink paper over boards, pink cloth spine with silver lettering
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good, slight bump at top of front coner.
- Jacket Condition
- DJ Very Good, some shelf wear, not clipped
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Kopf First Edition, 03/1988. Preceded by a limited edition
- Binding
- Hardback
- ISBN 10
- 0394568354
- ISBN 13
- 9780394568355
- Publisher
- Knopf First Edition
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- #828 bx50
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