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The Afterlife

The Afterlife

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The Afterlife

by John Updike

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  • Hardcover
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Knopf New York 1994 NF/NF.Blue boards with silver and gold gilt titles to front cover and spine. Clean, tight edition with no marks, no sticker. DJ is glossy with an angelic being on the front and a list of other short stories by John Updike on the back. Not price clipped, price of $24 US..

A collection of 22 short stories in all. Life beyond middle age is explored and found to have it's own exquisite sweetness.

Synopsis

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
Supercalifabulistic Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
200
Title
The Afterlife
Author
John Updike
Format/Binding
Tight
Book Condition
Used - Very Good+
Jacket Condition
Very Good
Quantity Available
1
Edition
Third Printing
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
Knopf
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1994
Keywords
Illumnating, angelic, England, short stories, Harvard Grad,

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Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
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