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Availability: Out of stock
Cover: Soft
Condition: Secong hand
Barcode: 9780140121339
Trade code: 49438
ISBN: 0140121331
Category: Fiction All Books

John Updike | "S."

Price 21.90 лв.
This product is second hand.
  • Copyright: © John Updike, 1988

    "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.

    "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

    • Language: English
    • Dimensions: 13 х 21 cm
    • Pages: 244
    • Cover: softcover
    • First published: 1988
    • This edition published: 1989


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