Still Looking: Essays on American Art
by Updike, John
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1400044189
- ISBN 13
- 9781400044184
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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 author of more than fifty books, including collections of short stories, poems, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Howells Medal.
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- Eliabooks (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31888
- Title
- Still Looking: Essays on American Art
- Author
- Updike, John
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1400044189
- ISBN 13
- 9781400044184
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2005
- Keywords
- 1400044189
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