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S.

John Updike

"One of Updike's lightest, funniest, and sliest fictions--a comedy about the sneaky economies of the spirit."

THE NEW YORKER

S. is Sarah Worth--a doctor's wife, North Shore matron, loving mother, and suddenly an ardent follower of a Hindu religious leader known as the Arhat, whom she decides to follow to his Arizona Ashram. In the letters and audiocassettes that Sarah sends to her husband, daughter, mother, brother, best friend, and anyone else who even touches her life, master novelist John Updike gives us a witty comedy of manners, a biting satire of life on a religious commune, and the story of an American woman in search of herself.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
  • Publish Date: Sep 3rd, 2013
  • Pages: 272
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.25in - 5.51in - 0.81in - 0.60lb
  • EAN: 9780449912126
  • Categories: LiteraryHumorous - GeneralPsychological

About the Author

John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal. In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Updike died in January 2009.

Praise for this book

"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