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A Month of Sundays by John Updike (1975, Hardcover) 1st Ed VG w/Protective Cover

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Condition
Very good
A book that does not look new and has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious damage to the cover, with the dust jacket (if applicable) included for hard covers. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, and no underlining/highlighting of text or writing in the margins. May be very minimal identifying marks on the inside cover. Very minimal wear and tear. See the seller’s listing for full details and description of any imperfections. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
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“First edition, Second printing. Very Good, pages tight. Jacket VG. Price-clipped. Protected by ...
Signed
No
Ex Libris
No
Narrative Type
Fiction
Original Language
English
Intended Audience
Adults
Inscribed
No
Edition
First Edition
Vintage
No
Personalize
No
Type
Novel
Literary Movement
Modernism
Personalized
No
Features
Dust Jacket, Protective Mylar Cover
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
ISBN
9780394495514

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0394495519
ISBN-13
9780394495514
eBay Product ID (ePID)
754741

Product Key Features

Book Title
Month of Sundays
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Psychological, Literary, Humorous / General
Publication Year
1975
Genre
Fiction
Author
John Updike
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
13.5 Oz
Item Length
8.3 in
Item Width
5.7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
74-021327
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"John Updike may be America's finest novelist and [ A Month of Sundays ] is quintessential Updike."- The Washington Post "Updike is playful, witty, ironic, ever-fresh, ever-provocative, and ever so ever erotic. . . . A Month of Sundays is both poignant and very funny. . . . One of America's most original, most subtle, and most engaging writers."- The Boston Globe "The funniest book that anyone is likely to read in, well, a month of Sundays . . . an excellent novel . . . Updike is dazzling in his wordplay." -The Cleveland Press, "John Updike may be America's finest novelist and [ A Month of Sundays ] is quintessential Updike."- The Washington Post "Updike is playful, witty, ironic, ever-fresh, ever-provocative, and ever so ever erotic. . . . A Month of Sundays is both poignant and very funny. . . . One of America's most original, most subtle, and most engaging writers."- The Boston Globe "The funniest book that anyone is likely to read in, well, a month of Sundays . . . an excellent novel . . . Updike is dazzling in his wordplay." -The Cleveland Press From the Trade Paperback edition., "A Tour De Force." -- Chicago Tribune Book World "The funniest book that anyone is likely to read in, well, a month of Sundays...An excellent novel...Updike is dazzling in his wordplay." -- The Cleveland Press "Updike is playful, witty, ironic, ever-fresh, ever-provocative, and ever so ever erotic....A Month of Sundays is both poignant and very funny...One of America's most original, most subtle, and most engaging writers." -- The Boston Globe "A flawless and utterly compelling work. His wit, intelligent sympathy, and unequaled command of the potentialities of the language for expressing and revealing have never had a better union....One of Updike's finest achievements." -- The Charlotte Observer, "John Updike may be America's finest novelist and [ A Month of Sundays ] is quintessential Updike."- The Washington Post   "Updike is playful, witty, ironic, ever-fresh, ever-provocative, and ever so ever erotic. . . . A Month of Sundays is both poignant and very funny. . . . One of America's most original, most subtle, and most engaging writers."- The Boston Globe   "The funniest book that anyone is likely to read in, well, a month of Sundays . . . an excellent novel . . . Updike is dazzling in his wordplay." -The Cleveland Press
TitleLeading
A
Dewey Decimal
813/.5/4
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., An antic riff on Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter, in which a latter-day Arthur Dimmesdale is sent west from his Midwestern parish in sexual disgrace--from one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series. "Updike may be America's finest novelist and [this] is quintessential Updike."-- The Washington Post 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.
LC Classification Number
PS3571.P4.M6 1975

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