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The Poorhouse Fair
The Poorhouse Fair
Author: John Updike
The Poorhouse Fair (1959) was the first novel by the American author John Updike. Its rural New England setting presaged much of Updike's fictional output. — At the Diamond County Home for the Aged, the inmates prepare for the ritual of the Poorhouse Fair; a summer celebration at which the old and infirm sell their produce to the people of the ne...  more »
ISBN: 322582
Publication Date: 1958
Pages: 127
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Publisher: Fawcett Premier
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Interesting because I live fairly close. My husband's great great grandfather is buried at the arms house, however, his grave has been destroyed by construction of apartment houses.


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