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Title: Month of Sundays by John Updike ISBN: 0-449-91220-5 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 27 August, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: dark revelations from a priest
Comment: updike's dark novel of a priest's innermost revelations through his life's journey. not an upbeat read by any means
Rating: 5
Summary: you people are crazy
Comment: This is a fabulous book. It marries esoteric philosophy and ultimate, base humanity better than any book I've ever read. This combination gives it the ammunition to truly shoot to the core of a reader. And I found it quite easy to read.
Rating: 3
Summary: Sex and the clergy
Comment: The priest Thomas Marshfield writes what amounts to a confession whilst undergoing therapy.
Marshfield (not surprisingly seeing as this is an Updike novel) is a highly-sexed individual - indeed, it is doubtful whether he worships God or sex more. Much of the novel is Marshfield's internal dialogue as he tries to reconcile his obsession with sex with religious doctrine.
I thought that "A Month of Sundays" was a curious work - written at times with wit (which was a bit hit-and-miss) and word play (which I thought was often strained). I thought too, perhaps wrongly, that Updike had been influenced by Nabokov's style of writing.
Although this is a short book, I felt that it tended to drift in places and got weaker towards the end. Interesting, but not one of Updike's best.
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Title: Marry Me : A Romance by John Updike ISBN: 0449912159 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 27 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Rabbit Angstrom : The Four Novels : Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, Rabbit at Rest (Everyman's Library) by John Updike ISBN: 0679444599 Publisher: Everyman's Library Pub. Date: 17 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Couples by John Updike ISBN: 044991190X Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 27 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Roger's Version by John Updike ISBN: 0394554353 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 12 August, 1986 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: Centaur by John Updike ISBN: 0449912167 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 27 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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