GB: Hamish Hamilton, 2009. Cream cloth, gilt. Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. Small faint vertical mark to front cover. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age.. 1st Edition. Hardback. VG+/VG+ DW.

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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 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: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976) (Bookdealer) (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: a603.012
Title: MY FATHER'S TEARS AND OTHER STORIES
Author: Updike, John
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - VG+
Jacket Condition: VG+ DW
Edition: 1st Edition
ISBN 10: 0241144590
ISBN 13: 9780241144596
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Place of Publication: GB
Date Published: 2009

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