The Poorhouse Fair Author: John Updike
	Book Information Publisher: Crest Book Type: Paperback Rating: ? ISBN-13: 68941 - ISBN-10: Pages: 127

THE POORHOUSE FAIR was John Updike's first full length novel, published four years after he graduated from Harvard. It concerns the events surrounding a fair put on by members of a poorhouse and is an allegory about charity. Short and succinct, it speaks to those fears all of us have of growing not old, but dependent.