A Month of Sundays, (Paperback)

from HippieLunatic

The concept is brilliant and one I was excited to read: a reverend who is addicted to sexual encounters with everyone but his wife. The vocabulary was brilliant: too much so. The pacing was brilliant: it blinded me at times with changes. Too much brilliance can sometimes be a challenge.

from icolford

The Reverend Thomas Marshfield (a man of God whose precipitous fall from grace into a state of doubt has landed him on uncertain moral ground) has been expelled from his parish for misdemeanors of a libidinous nature. His bishop has sent him into the desert, to a retreat: a facility for wayward c...

from carka

I selected this for my "U" choice for A-to-Z Authors group and had started (but paused) reading it before John Updike died. Once he died, I forced myself to keep reading this book just so I could check it off my list. I don't think the description did an adequate job of describing what the book w...

from AlanWPowers

One of Updike's two best books, according to the author, or three, according to yours truly. The other favorite son of Updike tells his teacher father's story in The Centaur. This one chooses as protagonist that icon of American culture--but not of American lit--the protestant preacher. Updike is...

from AlanWPowers

One of Updike's two best books, according to the author, or three, according to yours truly. The other favorite son of Updike tells his teacher father's story in The Centaur. This one chooses as protagonist that icon of American culture--but not of American lit--the protestant preacher. Updike is...