A Month of Sundays (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Updike, John

 
9780141189000: A Month of Sundays (Penguin Modern Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0141189002 ISBN 13: 9780141189000
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

Updike's seventh novel concerns a month of seven days, a month of enforced rest and recreation as experienced by the Reverend Tom Marshfield, sent west from his Midwestern church in disgrace.

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John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He is the author of over fifty books, including The Poorhouse Fair; the Rabbit series (Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest); Marry Me; The Witches of Eastwick, which was made into a major feature film; Memories of the Ford Administration; Brazil; In the Beauty of the Lilies; Toward the End of Time; Gertrude and Claudius; and Seek My Face. He has written a number of collections of short stories, including The Afterlife and Other Stories and Licks of Love, which includes a final Rabbit story, Rabbit Remembered. His essays and criticism first appeared in publications such as the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books, and are now collected into numerous volumes. Collected Poems 1953-1993 brings together almost all of his verse, and a new edition of his Selected Poems is forthcoming from Hamish Hamilton.

His novels, stories, and non-fiction collections have won have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the American Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Award and the Howells Medal.

Updike graduated from Harvard College in 1954, and spent a year at Oxford's Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of staff at the New Yorker, and he lived in Massachusetts from 1957 until his death in January 2009.

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A Month Of Sundays is John Updike's seventh novel that concerns a month of seventh days, a month of enforced rest and relaxation .This book has achieved a sureness of touch, and a supplement of style.

Aus dem Klappentext

In this brilliant 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....

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Verlag
Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0141189002
ISBN 13 
9780141189000
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
240
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