S
John Updike
From Lou Manrique - Antiquarian Bookseller, Port Townsend, WA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller Since June 23, 1998
Quantity: 1From Lou Manrique - Antiquarian Bookseller, Port Townsend, WA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller Since June 23, 1998
Quantity: 1About this Item
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. Seller Inventory # 5498EO
Bibliographic Details
Title: S
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, U.S.A.
Publication Date: 1988
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: As New
Dust Jacket Condition: As New
Edition: 1st Edition
About this title
"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
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