My Father's Tears and Other Stories
by John Updike
- New
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- New/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0307271560
- ISBN 13
- 9780307271563
- Seller
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Wilmington, Vermont, United States
2 Copies Available from This Seller
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Synopsis
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 more than sixty books, including collections of short stories, poems, and criticism. His books have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the American Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the Howells Medal, among other honors. He died in January 2009.
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- Bookseller
- Bartleby's Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31930
- Title
- My Father's Tears and Other Stories
- Author
- John Updike
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0307271560
- ISBN 13
- 9780307271563
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- June 2009
- Pages
- 304
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