济贫院集市
The Poorhouse Fair
John Updike · 初版 1958 年
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“每年八月的第三个星期三，新泽西州中部一栋由豪宅改建的救济院的住户们都会举办一年一度的集市；这部小说描写了大约距今［1958年］二十年后发生的一场集市，彼时美国自身正走向衰落……虽然 The Poorhouse Fair 因惋惜爱国主义、手工艺和宗教的衰落而带有保守主义色彩，但其手法却非传统；作者并未过度顾及虚构小说的常规，而是试图在闹剧与情节剧之间的暧昧地带，探寻现实本身的基调。”
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约翰·厄普代克（John Updike）。他所有书里的文笔都高于平均水准，但处女作《养老院的集市》（The Poorhouse Fair）格外惊艳。对现代读者来说可能有点吃不消——没什么爆炸场面或超级英雄壮举——但哪怕你只看进去一章，也能看出英语文字到底能写得多神。《白鲸》（Moby Dick）出乎意料地…
John Updike. Better than average prose in all of his books, but his debut The Poorhouse Fair is outstanding. It may be too much for modern readers - not many explosions or super heroics - but even if you only get a chapter in, it shows what can be done with English. Moby Dick is unexpectedly…
弗洛伦斯·金（Florence King）在随笔《仙境里的阳具》（Phallus in Wonderland）中说得更简练：“厄普代克的文风是梅尔维尔与奥斯汀的绝妙融合：读他的书就像用绣花剪刀去割鲸脂。”（指《养老院的集市》）又或者是：“读完大约六蒲式耳阴毛的详尽描写后，一股无名之力驱使我去翻找厨房抽屉，把我攒下的所有封口扎带（Twisties）都搜集起来…
Florence King was briefer in the essay "Phallus in Wonderland": "Updike's style is an exquisite blend of Melville and Austen: reading him is like cutting through whale blubber with embroidery scissors." (Poorhouse Fair) Or "Having read detailed descriptions of approximately six bushels of pubic hair, nameless forces drove me to go seeking and questing through my kitchen drawer to gather up all the Twisties I've saved…