S

John Updike

ISBN 10: 0394568354 / ISBN 13: 9780394568355

Edité par Alfred A. Knopf, U.S.A., 1988

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279 pp. The guru has landed, enchanting many followers, including middle-class Sara, who writes to her abandoned family and friends from her new communal home, about her "enlightenment", both spiritual and sexual, in an interconnected series of letters, signed with her enigmatic first initial. A romp in the re-remembered 80's. N° de réf. du vendeur 5498EO

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : S

Éditeur : Alfred A. Knopf, U.S.A.

Date d'édition : 1988

Reliure : Hardcover

Etat : As New

Etat de la jaquette : As New

Edition : 1st 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.

From the Trade Paperback edition.