UPDIKE, John.
Villages.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf , 2004.
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First Edition of John Updike's Villages; inscribed by him with an original drawing of Santa Claus and signed Three Times by dust jacket designer Chip Kidd
First edition of Updike's twenty-first novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper with an original drawing of a smiling Santa Claus, "For Mary Merry Xmas! John Updike." Additionally signed three times by legendary designer Chip Kidd on the front panel of the jacket and dated 10/2004 (in the year of publication), the front free endpaper, and the rear flap of the dust jacket. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd.
John Updike (1932–2009) was an American novelist, short-story writer, poet, and critic whose prolific body of work offers one of the most incisive literary portraits of postwar American life. Over the course of his career, he was widely recognized with major honors, including two Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction (1982, 1991), the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the National Medal of Arts (1989), the National Humanities Medal (2003), and the American Academy of Arts & Letters Gold Medal for Fiction (2007). Villages (2004) follows the life of Owen Mackenzie, a New England-born software entrepreneur, as he moves through a series of small American communities and a lifelong stream of romantic entanglements, reflecting on desire, memory, and the moral ambiguities of middle-class life.
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