Library of America launches its definitive multi-volume edition of
John Updike's novels with the four early works that signaled the
arrival of one of the most gifted young novelists of the 1960s.
John Updike had already made a name as a contributor of stories and
poems to The New Yorker when, in January 1959, at the age of
twenty-six, he published his first novel, The Poorhouse Fair,
launching one of the most extraordinary literary careers in
American letters. Now, Library of America inaugurates a
multi-volume edition of Updike's novels with this volume gathering
his first four novels, including the landmark Rabbit, Run, chosen
in 2010 by TIME Magazine one of the best 100 novels published in
English since 1923. Set in the near future of 1978, The Poorhouse
Fair stages a conflict between John Hook, a rebellious
ninety-four-year-old former schoolteacher now a resident of a rural
poorhouse, and young Mr. Conner, the utilitarian humanist who runs
the facility, as an allegory of resistance in a world of systems
and efficiencies. Updike's legendary rejoinder to Jack Kerouac's On
the Road, Rabbit, Run (1960) introduces us to the author's most
enduring protagonist, Harry Rabbit Angstrom, a onetime high-school
basketball star who, on an impulse, deserts his wife and son, with
tragic consequences. The Centaur, a comic-tragic father-son novel
that mixes memory and myth, won the National Book Award for Fiction
in 1964. The novella Of the Farm (1965) is one of Updike's
loveliest performances, a kind of chamber music for four voices set
during a single memorable weekend. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an
independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to
preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping
permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing.
The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to
date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length,
feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are
printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
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