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This novel by John Updike tells the story of Sarah Worth - "S" - who joins the Ashram Arhat. Famous for his transcendent wisdom and divine immobility, the Arhat has transferred his Ashram from India to Arizona, where he and his entourage are attempting to make the desert fruitful.
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From the Back Cover
"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 Inside Flap
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.
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- PublisherGardners Books
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0140121331
- ISBN 13 9780140121339
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
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