Roger's Version - Couverture rigide

Updike, John

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0233979883 ISBN 13 : 9780233979885

Editeur : HarperCollins Distribution Services, 1986

Synopsis

Edition; 1st trade ed. Physical description; 328 pages. Notes; First English edition: London: Deutsch, 1986. Summary; 52-year-old Roger is a professor in the divinity school. Into his stuffy life breezes his 19-year-old half-niece, Verna. So when his wife starts a thing with a spotty, evangelical computer freak, he feels tempted to examine his niece's thesis that "girls just wanna have fun". Subjects; Religious educators - Fiction. God - Proof - Data processing - Fiction. Fiction in English - American writers - (1945-) - Texts. fiction in English - (1945-) - American writers - texts. Modern fiction. Fiction / General. Genre; Fiction.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

As Roger Lambert tells it, he, a middle-aged professor of divinity, is buttonholed in his office by Dale Kohler, an earnest young computer scientist who believes that quantifiable evidence of God’s existence is irresistibly accumulating. The theological-scientific debate that ensues, and the wicked strategies that Roger employs to disembarrass Dale of his faith, form the substance of this novel—these and the current of erotic attraction that pulls Esther, Roger’s much younger wife, away from him and into Dale’s bed. The novel, a majestic allegory of faith and reason, ends also as a black comedy of revenge, for this is Roger’s version—Roger Chillingworth’s side of the triangle described by Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter—made new for a disbelieving age.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Middle-aged, brilliant and bored, Roger Lambert is a professor of Divinity at a New England university. Firmly convinced that religious belief can only justified by recourse to pure faith, he is dismissive when visited by a gangling student who claims, with evangelical zeal, that computer technology is on the brink of proving the existence of God. But when his unhappy wife flings herself into an affair with the younger man, and Roger's faith in his own placid life is thrown into question. With his marriage close to collapse, he finds himself increasingly drawn to his own half-niece, the nineteen-year-old Verna, in this cunning and comic exploration of religion, uncertainty and passion.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: HarperCollins Distribution Services
• Date d'édition: 1986
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0233979883
• ISBN 13: 9780233979885
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible