Roger’s Version (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: John Updike
- First Published: 1986
- Type of Work: Novel
- 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
Roger Lambert, fifty-two as the novel begins, is a professor at an unnamed New England divinity school. Fourteen years earlier, he left the ministry and divorced his first wife, Lillian, to marry his present wife, Esther (fourteen years his junior), with whom he had been having an affair. They have an adolescent son, Richie, a comfortable existence, and a marriage soured by boredom, petty bickering, and the passage of time.
That is the status quo, thrown off balance by the remaining two of the novel’s quartet of main characters. Dale Kohler (“like the plumbing”), a...
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