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Fawcett Crest: Roger's Version

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  • 354 páginas
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As Roger Lambert tells it, he, a middle-aged professor of divinity, is buttonholed in his office by Dale Kohler, an earnest young computer scientist who believes that quantifiable evidence of God’s existence is irresistibly accumulating. The theological-scientific debate that ensues, and the wicked strategies that Roger employs to disembarrass Dale of his faith, form the substance of this novel—these and the current of erotic attraction that pulls Esther, Roger’s much younger wife, away from him and into Dale’s bed. The novel, a majestic allegory of faith and reason, ends also as a black comedy of revenge, for this is Roger’s version—Roger Chillingworth’s side of the triangle described by Hawthorne’s <i>Scarlet Letter</i>—made new for a disbelieving age.

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Fawcett Crest: Roger's Version, John Updike

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Publicado en
1987
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(Tapa blanda),
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Bueno
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4,09 €

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Título
Fawcett Crest: Roger's Version
Idioma
Inglés
Editorial
Fawcett Crest
Publicado en
1987
Formato
Tapa blanda
Páginas
354
ISBN10
0449214400
ISBN13
9780449214404
Serie
Descripción
As Roger Lambert tells it, he, a middle-aged professor of divinity, is buttonholed in his office by Dale Kohler, an earnest young computer scientist who believes that quantifiable evidence of God’s existence is irresistibly accumulating. The theological-scientific debate that ensues, and the wicked strategies that Roger employs to disembarrass Dale of his faith, form the substance of this novel—these and the current of erotic attraction that pulls Esther, Roger’s much younger wife, away from him and into Dale’s bed. The novel, a majestic allegory of faith and reason, ends also as a black comedy of revenge, for this is Roger’s version—Roger Chillingworth’s side of the triangle described by Hawthorne’s <i>Scarlet Letter</i>—made new for a disbelieving age.