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Of the Farm : A Novel by John Updike (2004, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherRandom House Publishing Group

ISBN-100345468228

ISBN-139780345468222

eBay Product ID (ePID)144783524

Product Key Features

Book TitleOf the Farm : a Novel

Number of Pages144 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2004

TopicPsychological, Family Life, Visionary & Metaphysical, Literary

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction

AuthorJohn Updike

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight5.3 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2004-268958

Reviews"A small masterpiece . . . With Of the Farm, John Updike has achieved a sureness of touch, a suppleness of style, and a subtlety of vision that is gained by few writers of fiction."-- The New York Times "An excellent book . . . [Updike] has the painter's eye for form, line, and colâˆ¨ the poet's ear for metaphâˆ¨ and the storyteller's knack for 'and then what happened?' "-- Harper's "Updike is a master of sheer elegance of form that shows itself time and again."-- Los Angeles Times, "A small masterpiece . . . With Of the Farm, John Updike has achieved a sureness of touch, a suppleness of style, and a subtlety of vision that is gained by few writers of fiction."- The New York Times "An excellent book . . . [Updike] has the painter's eye for form, line, and colâˆ¨ the poet's ear for metaphâˆ¨ and the storyteller's knack for 'and then what happened?' "- Harper's "Updike is a master of sheer elegance of form that shows itself time and again."- Los Angeles Times, "Very clearly and very completely a small masterpiece." -The New York Times "AN EXCELLENT BOOK . . . A PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER . . . [Updike] has the painter's eye for form, line, and colâˆ¨ the poet's ear for metaphâˆ¨ and the storyteller's knack for 'and then what happened?' " -Harper's "Updike is a master of sheer elegance of form that shows itself time and again." -Los Angeles Times "Updike just happens to write the most vivid prose in America." -Vanity Fair, "Very clearly and very completely a small masterpiece." -The New York Times "AN EXCELLENT BOOK . . . A PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER . . . [Updike] has the painter's eye for form, line, and colâˆ¨ the poet's ear for metaphâˆ¨ and the storyteller's knack for 'and then what happened?' " - Harper's "Updike is a master of sheer elegance of form that shows itself time and again." -Los Angeles Times "Updike just happens to write the most vivid prose in America." -Vanity Fair

Synopsis"A small masterpiece . . . With Of the Farm , John Updike has achieved a sureness of touch, a suppleness of style, and a subtlety of vision that is gained by few writers of fi ction."-- The New York Times In this short novel, Joey Robinson, a thirty-five-year-old New Yorker, describes a visit he makes, with his second wife and eleven-year-old stepson, to the Pennsylvania farm where he grew up and where his aging mother now lives alone. For three days, a quartet of voices explores the air, making confessions, seeking alignments, quarreling, pleading, and pardoning. They are not entirely alone: ghosts (fathers, lovers, children) press upon them, as do phantoms from the near future (nurses, lawyers, land developers). Of the Farm concerns the places people choose to live their lives, and the strategies they use to stand their ground.

LC Classification NumberPS3571.P4O4 2004