| Roger's Version Contributor(s): Updike, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0449912183 ISBN-13: 9780449912188 Publisher: Random House Trade OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1996 Annotation: A born-again computer whiz kid bent on proving the existence of God on his computer meets a middle-aged divinity professor, Roger Lambert, who'd just as soon leave faith a mystery. Soon the computer hacker begins an affair with professor Lambert's wife -- and Roger finds himself experiencing deep longings for a trashy teenage girl. "From the Paperback edition. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Humorous - General - Fiction | Psychological |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 96096705 |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.5" W x 8.31" (0.88 lbs) 352 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: As Roger Lambert tells it, he, a middle-aged professor of divinity, is buttonholed in his office by Dale Kohler, an earnest young computer scientist who believes that quantifiable evidence of God's existence is irresistibly accumulating. The theological-scientific debate that ensues, and the wicked strategies that Roger employs to disembarrass Dale of his faith, form the substance of this novel--these and the current of erotic attraction that pulls Esther, Roger's much younger wife, away from him and into Dale's bed. The novel, a majestic allegory of faith and reason, ends also as a black comedy of revenge, for this is Roger's version--Roger Chillingworth's side of the triangle described by Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter--made new for a disbelieving age. |