A Month of Sundays - Softcover

Updike, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0449912205 ISBN 13: 9780449912201

Publisher: Random House Trade, 1996

Synopsis

"A tour de force . . . Readable, clever." Chicago Tribune Book World

The adventures of the Reverend Tom Marshfield -- literate, charming, sexual -- whose outrageous behavior with the ladies of his flock scandalizes his parish . . .

About this title

Review:

"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 Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal. In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Updike died in January 2009.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Trade
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0449912205
• ISBN 13: 9780449912201
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224