Marry Me - Hardcover

Updike, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 039440856X ISBN 13: 9780394408569

Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group, 1979

Synopsis

"It is, quite simply, Updike's best novel yet." NEWSWEEK

A deftly satirical portrait of life and love in a suburban town as only Updike can paint it.

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Review:

"Marry Me is superb, sharp, witty, perceptive, honest. . . . With keen intelligence, Updike has cut a slice of life the width of one town, the height of one feverish summer, the depth of four people trying to understand why their center does not hold--and turned it into a mirror of our modern popular wisdom."--Chicago Daily News

"Updike's most mature work . . . His writing has deepened, grown wiser and funnier, like a face that is aging well."--The Atlantic

"It is, quite simply, Updike's best novel yet."--Newsweek

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 039440856X
• ISBN 13: 9780394408569
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320