Roger’s Version (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: John Updike
- First Published: 1986
- Type of Plot: Novel of ideas
- Time of Work: 1984-1985
- Setting: An unnamed New England city
- Principal Characters: Roger Lambert, Esther Lambert, Dale Kohler, Verna Ekelof, Paula Ekelof
- Genres: Long fiction, Philosophical realism, Problem novel
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, Sex or sexuality, 1980’s, New England, College life, Adultery, Theology
- Locales: New England
The Novel
John Updike’s long-standing interest in religious issues and his continuing fascination with human sexual behavior are combined in this novel set in New England, the landscape that admirably served an earlier American novelist, Nathaniel Hawthorne, for his investigation of similar subjects in his American classic The Scarlet Letter (1850). Told from the point of view of Roger Lambert, the novel presents an intriguing narrative of modern concerns with science and theology. Lambert, a divinity-school professor married for the second time and living happily in...
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