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S. A Novel by John Updike -First Edition - Hardcover - Dust Jacket
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Personalize
- No
- Type
- Novel
- Signed
- No
- Ex Libris
- No
- Personalized
- No
- Features
- Dust Jacket
- Inscribed
- No
- Edition
- First Edition
- Vintage
- No
- ISBN
- 9780394568355
- Book Title
- S.
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Item Length
- 8.3 in
- Publication Year
- 1988
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Contemporary Women, Religious, Literary
- Item Weight
- 15.3 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0394568354
ISBN-13
9780394568355
eBay Product ID (ePID)
156247
Product Key Features
Book Title
S.
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Contemporary Women, Religious, Literary
Publication Year
1988
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
15.3 Oz
Item Length
8.3 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
87-040496
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"One of Updike's lightest, funniest, and slyest fictions-a comedy about the sneaky economies of the spirit." -The New Yorker "This comedy of Brahmin manners is . . . a mercilessly funny account of life in a religious commune. Some would say that Sarah's flight to self-discovery is strictly in the best Puritan tradition."- The Washington Post Book World "A spiritual adventure story . . . Updike fully inhabits his imperfect matron. Her voice, which can sweep from the heights of religious fluff to the swamps of bathos in astonishing feats of non sequitur, is a wonderful comic invention."- Newsweek From the Trade Paperback edition., "One of Updike's lightest, funniest, and slyest fictions-a comedy about the sneaky economies of the spirit." -The New Yorker "This comedy of Brahmin manners is . . . a mercilessly funny account of life in a religious commune. Some would say that Sarah's flight to self-discovery is strictly in the best Puritan tradition."- The Washington Post Book World "A spiritual adventure story . . . Updike fully inhabits his imperfect matron. Her voice, which can sweep from the heights of religious fluff to the swamps of bathos in astonishing feats of non sequitur, is a wonderful comic invention."- Newsweek From the Trade Paperback edition., "A Tour De Force." -- The New York Times "One of Updike's lightest, funniest, and sliest fictions -- a comedy about the sneaky economies of the spirit." -- The New Yorker "Entirely satisfying and entertaining with a good half-dozen hilarious twists and surprises at the end for everyone...John Updike has given us with S., his 12th and funniest novel." -- Chicago Sun-Times "Delightful and penetrating...[John Updike] is the chief chronicler of the life and times of the modern American middle class -- and perhaps its most important literary conscience." -- The Philadelphia Inquirer "Immensely clever...The novel glimmers with the wry intelligence one has come to associate with Updike's vision." -- The Boston Globe From the Trade Paperback edition., "One of Updike's lightest, funniest, and slyest fictions--a comedy about the sneaky economies of the spirit." --The New Yorker "This comedy of Brahmin manners is . . . a mercilessly funny account of life in a religious commune. Some would say that Sarah's flight to self-discovery is strictly in the best Puritan tradition."-- The Washington Post Book World "A spiritual adventure story . . . Updike fully inhabits his imperfect matron. Her voice, which can sweep from the heights of religious fluff to the swamps of bathos in astonishing feats of non sequitur, is a wonderful comic invention."-- Newsweek From the Trade Paperback edition.
Dewey Decimal
813.54
Synopsis
S. is Sarah 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., 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., "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.""
LC Classification Number
PS3571.P4S17 1988
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