S.: A Novel - Softcover

Updike, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0449912124 ISBN 13: 9780449912126

Verlag: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2013

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Book by Updike John

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S. is the story of Sarah P. Worth, a thoroughly modern spiritual seeker who has become enamored of a Hindu mystic called the Arhat. A native New Englander, she goes west to join his ashram in Arizona, and there struggles alongside fellowsannyasins (pilgrims) in the difficult attempt to subdue ego and achieve moksha (salvation, release from illusion). “S.” details her adventures in letters and tapes dispatched to her husband, her daughter, her brother, her dentist, her hairdresser, and her psychiatrist—messages cleverly designed to keep her old world in order while she is creating for herself a new one. This is Hester Prynne’s side of the triangle described by Hawthorne’sScarlet Letter; it is also a burlesque of the quest for enlightenment, and an affectionate meditation on American womanhood.

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Worth -- doctor's wife, North Shore matron, loving mother, and now (suddenly!) ardent follower of a Hindu religious leader known as the Arhat. As this brilliant and very funny novel opens, Sarah is fleeing the confinement of her suburban life to become a sannyasin (pilgrim) at her guru's Arizona ashram.

In the letters and audiocassettes that Sarah sends to her husband, daughter, mother, brother, best friend -- to her psychiatrist and her hairdresser and her dentist -- master novelist John Updike gives us a witty comedy of manners, a biting satire of life on a religious commune, and the story -- deep and true -- of an American woman in search of herself.

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• Verlag: Random House Trade Paperbacks
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0449912124
• ISBN 13: 9780449912126
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272