A Month of Sundays is a novel written by John Updike. Released in 1974, it forms the first part of an unofficial duology rewriting The Scarlet Letter and tells of the misadventures of Tom Marshfield.
Characters[]
- Tom Marshfield - a married clergyman who is a reworking of Arthur Dimmesdale
- Ms. Prynne
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Publisher's summary[]
An antic riff on Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter, in which a latter-day Arthur Dimmesdale is sent west from his Midwestern parish in sexual disgrace—from one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series.
“Updike may be America’s finest novelist and [this] is quintessential Updike.”— The Washington Post
At a desert retreat dedicated to rest, recreation, and spiritual renewal, this fortyish serial fornicator is required to keep a journal whose thirty-one weekly entries constitute the book you now hold in your hand. In his wonderfully overwrought style he lays bare his soul and his past—his marriage to the daughter of his ethics professor, his affair with his organist, his antipathetic conversations with his senile father and his bisexual curate, his golf scores, his poker hands, his Biblical exegeses, and his smoldering desire for the directress of the retreat, the impregnable Ms. Prynne. A testament for our times.
See also[]
| Title | Author | Release date | Significance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Love in the Time of Cholera | Gabriel García Márquez | 1985 | A novel with a similar plot and similar themes |
| Rabbit, Run | John Updike | 1960 | A novel by the same author with similar themes |
| Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov | 1955 | A novel with a vaguely similar plot |
Sources[]
- Goodreads
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