New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2002. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0375414908 . A most attractive first edition/first printing in unread Fine condition in alike dustjacket. SIGNED by author John Updike directly on the front flyleaf. De Bellis/Broomfield A186a; John Updike’s twentieth novel, like his first, The Poorhouse Fair (1959), takes place in one day, a day that contains much conversation and some rain. The seventy-eight-year-old painter Hope Chafetz recapitulates, through the story of her own career, the triumphant, poignant saga of postwar American art. (From the dustjacket); 8vo; [10], [1-2] 3-276 [277-8] pages; Signed by Author .

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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: Books Tell You Why, Inc. (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 46327
Title: Seek My Face - 1st Edition/1st Printing
Author: Updike, John
Format/Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0375414908
ISBN 13: 9780375414909
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 2002
Keywords: Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print, Pulitzer Prize Author, American Art Fiction
Bookseller catalogs: Legendary Authors / Updike, John;

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