1988 John Updike S. Novel First Edition Fine Hard Cover w/DJ

Description: S. Written by John Updike. Published byAlfred A. Knopf, New York. Copyright 1988; “First Edition” is stated on the copyright page. From Wikipedia: John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others being Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, and Colson Whitehead), Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as poetry, art and literary criticism and children's books during his career. Updike enjoyed working in series; in addition to the Rabbit novels and the Maples stories, a recurrent Updike alter ego is the moderately well-known, unprolific Jewish novelist and eventual Nobel laureate Henry Bech, chronicled in three comic short-story cycles: Bech, a Book (1970), Bech Is Back (1981) and Bech at Bay: A Quasi-Novel (1998). These stories were compiled as The Complete Henry Bech (2001) by Everyman's Library. Bech is a comical and self-conscious antithesis of Updike's own literary persona: Jewish, a World War II veteran, reclusive, and unprolific to a fault. DESCRIPTION: 279 pages 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches first edition hardcover with dustjacket CONDITION: This hard-cover book is in fine condition with like dust jacket. The pink cloth hardcover is clean and shows only slight wear at the corners and spine ends. . The interior is excellent with no names, marks, underlining, tears or odor. The hinges and binding are excellent and there are no loose or missing pages. The dust jacket is complete with price intact on the front flap. There are no flaws to speak of. This dust jacket will come protected in a new Brodart mylar dust jacket protector. From the dust jacket description: The story of S. concerns Sarah Worth, a latter-dayHester Prynne who has become enamored of a Hindu religious leader called Arhat. A New Englander, she goes west to join his commune in Arizona, and there mingles with the older sannyasins (pilgrims) in the difficult attempt to subdue ego and achieve moksha (salvation, release from illusion). John Updike’s thirteenth novel takes the form of letters and tapes that his forty-two-year-old heroine dispatches to her husband, her mother, her daughter, her brother, her hairdresser, her psychiatrist, her dentist, and others as she strives to keep her old world in order while creating for herself and new one. This is Hester’s version of the triangle set forth in Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter; it is also a meditation upon American womanhood, a romance, and a religious comedy. BECAUSE MEDIA RATE SHIPPING IS FREE ON THE BOOKS I SELL, COMBINE THIS WITH OTHER ITEMS FROM MY EBAY STORE. I AM AN EXPERIENCED EBAY SELLER (23+ YEARS) AND SHIPPER WITH 100% (always!--since 1997!) FEEDBACK RATING. ALL ITEMS ARE CAREFULLY AND SECURELY PACKED TO REDUCE OR ELIMINATE DANGER OF CRUSHING AND OR WATER/MOISTURE DAMAGE. ALL BOOKS ARE SHIPPED IN STURDY BOXES WITH TRACKING AND DELIVERY CONFIRMATION INCLUDED. I PERSONALLY GUARANTEE ALL OF THE BOOKS, AUTOGRAPHS AND SIGNATURES ON BOOKS I SELL.

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