The Poorhouse Fair (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: John Updike
- First Published: 1959
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Satire
- Time of Work: 1980’s
- Setting: The Diamond County Home for the Aged, in New Jersey
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire
- Subjects: 1970’s, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Social reform, 1980’s, New Jersey, Old age or elderly people, Retirement, Elderly abuse
- Locales: New Jersey
Characters Discussed
John F. Hook, a retired schoolteacher. He is ninety-four years old and has been living in the Diamond County Home for the Aged for fifteen years. He is a man of thought and reflection who delights in intellectual discourse and still feels the essential obligation of a teacher to instruct the world in terms of the values, virtues, philosophical perspectives, and cultural landmarks he sees as the structural foundation of civilization. His ideas are grounded in American history, and his continuing sense of pleasure in the infinite, intricate detail of the...
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John Updike (Cyclopedia of World Authors)John Updike (Poetry)John Updike (Short Fiction)John Updike (Long Fiction)John Updike (Identities and Issues)John Updike (Sixties in America)
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