A Month of Sundays: A Novel - Softcover

Updike, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0449912205 ISBN 13: 9780449912201

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 1996

Synopsis

In this antic riff on Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter, the Reverend Tom Marshfield, a latter-day Arthur Dimmesdale, is sent west from his Midwestern parish in sexual disgrace. At a desert retreat dedicated to rest, recreation, and spiritual renewal, this fortyish serial fornicator is required to keep a journal whose thirty-one weekly entries constitute the book you now hold in your hand. In his wonderfully overwrought style he lays bare his soul and his past—his marriage to the daughter of his ethics professor, his affair with his organist, his antipathetic conversations with his senile father and his bisexual curate, his golf scores, his poker hands, his Biblical exegeses, and his smoldering desire for the directress of the retreat, the impregnable Ms. Prynne. A testament for our times.

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liant novel, John Updike has created one of his most memorable characters: the Reverend Tom Marshfield -- literate, charming, sexual -- whose outrageous behavior with the ladies of his flock scandalizes his parish....

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0449912205
• ISBN 13: 9780449912201
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224