NY.: Knopf., 1999.. Tan cloth, top edges stained red.. Near Fine/Near Fine dj.. 8vo. Occasional illustrations in black & white.. First Edition so stated.

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John Updike was born in 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania. 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 , and since 1957 has lived in Massachusetts. He is the father of four children and the author of fifty books, including collections of short stories, poems, essays, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize (twice), the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Award, and the Howells Medal. A previous collection of essays, Hugging the Shore , received the 1983 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism.

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Bookseller: The Bear Bookshop, John Greenberg (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 8807091401
Title: More Matter: Essays & Criticism
Author: Updike, John
Illustrator: Occasional illustrations in black & white.
Format/Binding: Tan cloth, top edges stained red.
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine/Near Fine dj.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf.
Place of Publication: NY.
Date Published: 1999.
Pages: 900pp.
Size: 8vo
Keywords: 1st Editions, John Updike, Literary Criticism, Literary Essays, 20th Century American Literature

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