S" , A Novel

Updike, John

ISBN 10: 0394568354 / ISBN 13: 9780394568355

Edité par Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1988

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First Edition, stated, 279 pp., publisher's pink cloth with silver lettering on the cover and the spine, top edge light green. Price is intact on the jacket flap. N° de réf. du vendeur up.0702

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : S" , A Novel

Éditeur : Alfred A. Knopf, New York

Date d'édition : 1988

Reliure : Hardcover

Etat : Near Fine

Etat de la jaquette : Fine

Edition : First Edition.

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Synopsis :

Book by John Updike

Présentation de l'éditeur:

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 fellow sannyasins (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’s Scarlet Letter; it is also a burlesque of the quest for enlightenment, and an affectionate meditation on American womanhood.

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