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A Month of Sundays
by John Updike
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
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Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York: Alfred A. Knopf , 1975. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. John Updike's novel concerns a month of seventh days, a month of enforced rest and recreation as experienced by the Reverend Tom Marshfield, sent west from his Midwestern church in disgrace. In his wonderfully overwrought style the errant cleric spills day by day his confession his boyhood in a parsonage, his marriage to the daughter of his ethics professor, his seduction of his organist, his antipathetic conversations with his senile father and his bisexual curate, his golf scores, his poker hands, his biblical exegeses, his faith. Book is very,VERY funny. Book in near fine condition with slight bumping at spine ends and very slight chipping at spine bottom. Unclipped ($6.95) jacket is very good with wear at spine ends and corners. Book has a page on verso of half title page of Chinese characters and a pencil notation on ffep " Taiwan piracy". I assume this is a pirated book. Very interesting and collectible. Now protected in Mylar.
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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- Oshtemo Book Sellers
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000926
- Title
- A Month of Sundays
- Author
- John Updike
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- 1975
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