A Month of Sundays - Softcover

Updike, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140041508 ISBN 13: 9780140041507

Publisher: Penguin, 1976

Synopsis

Banished to a desert retreat for recalcitrant clerics, the reverend but randy Thomas Marshfield preens his fantasies. This book, written as occupational therapy, is his confession and his testament.

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Review:

"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

"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"

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0140041508
• ISBN 13: 9780140041507
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192