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Seek My Face

by Updike, John

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0375414908
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9780375414909
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New York, New York, USA: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hard Back First Printing Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket As New. Bright, clean, tight, solid book. Brushed gray cloth binding w/silver and gilt titles. Clean bright jacket, not price-clipped. Jacket painting: Portrait of Polyxena Stasova after Repin (detail) by Nicholas M. Raynolds. This novel, John Updike's twentieth novel, takes place in one day, as did his first novel, 'The Poorhouse Fair', (1959). During much conversation and much rain, the relationship between two women, the 78 year-old painter Hope Chafetz and a New York interviewer, move in and out of their various roles in life. Hope recapitulates, through the story of her own career, the saga of postwar American art. Set in central Vermont, spring, 2001. 276 pages, 8.25 x 5.5 inches. 2002. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, New York, USA

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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
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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
Seek My Face
Author
Updike, John
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
New As New
Jacket Condition
As New
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First Edition
ISBN 10
0375414908
ISBN 13
9780375414909
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Place of Publication
New York, New York, USA
Date Published
2002
Size
8vo - over 7
Keywords
LITERATURE, AMERICAN WOMEN PAINTERS ART VERMONT
Bookseller catalogs
Fiction. Modern Classics;
X weight
0 oz

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