S.
Vintage trade cloth edition in very good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Some fading to blue edging along top pages. Stated first edition. Mylar cover included.
“The strange thing about womanhood is that it goes on and on—the same daily burden of constant vague expectation and of everything being just slightly disappointing compared with what one knows one has inside oneself waiting to be touched off.”
S. is the story of Sarah P. Worth, a thoroughly modern spiritual seeker who has become enamored of a Hindu mystic called the Arhat. A native of New England, she goes west to join his ashram in Arizona, and there struggles alongside fellow pilgrims in the difficult attempt to subdue ego and achieve salvation. She details her adventures in letters and tapes dispatched to her husband, her daughter, her brother, her dentist, her hairdresser and her psychiatrist—messages cleverly designed to keep her old world in order while she is creating for herself a new one.
Vintage trade cloth edition in very good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Some fading to blue edging along top pages. Stated first edition. Mylar cover included.
“The strange thing about womanhood is that it goes on and on—the same daily burden of constant vague expectation and of everything being just slightly disappointing compared with what one knows one has inside oneself waiting to be touched off.”
S. is the story of Sarah P. Worth, a thoroughly modern spiritual seeker who has become enamored of a Hindu mystic called the Arhat. A native of New England, she goes west to join his ashram in Arizona, and there struggles alongside fellow pilgrims in the difficult attempt to subdue ego and achieve salvation. She details her adventures in letters and tapes dispatched to her husband, her daughter, her brother, her dentist, her hairdresser and her psychiatrist—messages cleverly designed to keep her old world in order while she is creating for herself a new one.
Vintage trade cloth edition in very good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Some fading to blue edging along top pages. Stated first edition. Mylar cover included.
“The strange thing about womanhood is that it goes on and on—the same daily burden of constant vague expectation and of everything being just slightly disappointing compared with what one knows one has inside oneself waiting to be touched off.”
S. is the story of Sarah P. Worth, a thoroughly modern spiritual seeker who has become enamored of a Hindu mystic called the Arhat. A native of New England, she goes west to join his ashram in Arizona, and there struggles alongside fellow pilgrims in the difficult attempt to subdue ego and achieve salvation. She details her adventures in letters and tapes dispatched to her husband, her daughter, her brother, her dentist, her hairdresser and her psychiatrist—messages cleverly designed to keep her old world in order while she is creating for herself a new one.
ISBN 978-0-394-56835-4
John Updike
1988