A Month of Sundays - Hardcover

Updike, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394495519 ISBN 13: 9780394495514

Verlag: Knopf, 1975

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Book by Updike John

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"John Updike may be America's finest novelist and [A Month of Sundays] is quintessential Updike."--The Washington Post

"Updike is playful, witty, ironic, ever-fresh, ever-provocative, and ever so ever erotic. . . . A Month of Sundays is both poignant and very funny. . . . One of America's most original, most subtle, and most engaging writers."--The Boston Globe

"The funniest book that anyone is likely to read in, well, a month of Sundays . . . an excellent novel . . . Updike is dazzling in his wordplay."--The Cleveland Press

Reseña del editor:

In this antic riff on Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter, the Reverend Tom Marshfield, a latter-day Arthur Dimmesdale, is sent west from his Midwestern parish in sexual disgrace. At a desert retreat dedicated to rest, recreation, and spiritual renewal, this fortyish serial fornicator is required to keep a journal whose thirty-one weekly entries constitute the book you now hold in your hand. In his wonderfully overwrought style he lays bare his soul and his past—his marriage to the daughter of his ethics professor, his affair with his organist, his antipathetic conversations with his senile father and his bisexual curate, his golf scores, his poker hands, his Biblical exegeses, and his smoldering desire for the directress of the retreat, the impregnable Ms. Prynne. A testament for our times.

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• Verlag: Knopf
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1975
• ISBN 10: 0394495519
• ISBN 13: 9780394495514
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240