Roger's Version - Rilegato

Updike, John

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ISBN 10: 0394554353 ISBN 13: 9780394554358

Casa editrice: Knopf, 1986

Riassunto

When divinity school professor Roger Lambert is confronted by Dale Kohler, a young computer hacker who believes that scientific evidence of God's existence is accumulating, Lambert, a follower of Karl Barth, challenges Kohler's faith

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Recensione:

“Remarkably interesting . . . One finishes it with . . . renewed respect for one of the most intelligent and resourceful of contemporary novelists.”—David Lodge, The New York Times Book Review
 
“Wonderful reading from beginning to end . . . The precise, laconic bull’s-eye descriptive passages in this novel continually amaze with their absolute accuracy.”—San Francisco Chronicle
 
“Wonderfully tricky and nakedly sharp-minded . . . Updike’s Roger Lambert is a perfectly 20th-century beast—boastfully wicked in all directions.”—The Washington Post Book World

L'autore:

John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff ofThe New Yorker. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal. In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Updike died in January 2009.

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• Editore: Knopf
• Data di pubblicazione: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0394554353
• ISBN 13: 9780394554358
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 352