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The Poorhouse Fair
The Poorhouse Fair
Author: John Updike
"The Poorhouse Fair concerns the lives of a handful of marvelously eccentric and understandable people in a poorhouse on the undulating plains of central New Jersey. It begins on the morning of the annual Fair, an innovation of the new and very ambitious Prefect, and in the gathering of clouds the inmates sense, to their delight, the promise of ...  more »
ISBN: 337326
Publication Date: 1959
Pages: 185
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Publisher: Alfred A Knopf
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette
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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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