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TRUST ME; Short Stories by John Updike
by Updike, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Fine/Very Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0394558332
- ISBN 13
- 9780394558332
- Seller
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Lake Forest, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. First Edition. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. 8vo, blue cloth with silver lettering on spine over pale blue boards with "John Updike" stamped in silver on front cover, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting the Fall of Icarus by Bernard Picart, [viii] + 302 pages. Exceptional Condition!<br/> <br/> John Updike (1932 - 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only three writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as poetry, art and literary criticism and children's books during his career. <br/> <br/> Updike's short stories were collected in several volumes published by Alfred A. Knopf over five decades. <br/> <br/> Trust Me is a collection of 23 stories written by brilliant Updike. These include such brief masterpieces as: "Trust Me," "Killing," "The City," "The Lovely Troubled Daughters of Our Old Crowd," "Deaths of Distant Friends," "Pygmalion," "The Other," "Poker Night," and "The Other Woman."--Wikipedia.
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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- Bookseller
- Borg Antiquarian
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1631
- Title
- TRUST ME; Short Stories by John Updike
- Author
- Updike, John
- Format/Binding
- Cloth and boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394558332
- ISBN 13
- 9780394558332
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1987
- Keywords
- Urban, sex, mystery, engravings, short stories,
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Borg Antiquarian
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Lake Forest, Illinois
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