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by Updike, John

First Edition, First Printing

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Bookseller: H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller (US)
Bookseller Inventory #: 004091
Format/binding: Hardcover
Book condition: Fine
Jacket condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0394568354
ISBN 13: 9780394568355
Publisher: Knopf
Place: New York
Date published: 1988
Size: 5.75 x 8.25 x 1.25 inches
Weight: 1.05 pounds
Keywords: Modern Novel, First Edition, Religion, Comedy, Hawthorne,
Subjects: FICTION / General;

Book Description

New York: Knopf, 1988. Updike's thirteenth novel takes the form of letters and tapes 42-year-old Sara Worth sends to her husband, mother, daughter and assorted friends and neighbors after abandoning her New England home to join a commune in Arizona. Like Hester Prynne in Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter," Sara has fallen in love with a religious leader; in Sara's case, a Hindu named Arhat, resulting in a religious comedy, a romance, and Updike's meditation on American womanhood. Boards and text are clean, tight, perhaps a trace of spine lean; dustjacket is close to perfect with very minimal surface and edgewear. A very collectable copy.. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

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