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S. by John Updike (1989, Mass Market)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
ISBN-100449216527
ISBN-139780449216521
eBay Product ID (ePID)158848
Product Key Features
Book TitleS.
Publication Year1989
TopicLiterary
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
GenreNon-Classifiable, Fiction
AuthorJohn Updike
FormatMass Market
Dimensions
Item Weight5.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Reviews"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.
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal813.54
SynopsisS. 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. From the Trade Paperback edition.
