s Author: John Updike
	Book Information Publisher: Gardners Books Book Type: Paperback Members Wishing: 0 Rating: 1 ISBN-13: 9780140121339 - ISBN-10: 0140121331 Publication Date: 3/30/1989

S. is Sarah Worth -- doctor's wife, North Shore matron, loving mother, and now (suddenly!) ardent follower of a Hindu religious leader known as the Arhat. As this brilliant and very funny novel opens, Sarah is fleeing the confinement of her suburban life to become a sannyasin (pilgrim) at her guru's Arizona ashram.

In the letters and audiocassettes that Sarah sends to her husband, daughter, mother, brother, best friend -- to her psychiatrist and her hairdresser and her dentist -- master novelist John Updike gives us a witty comedy of manners, a biting satire of life on a religious commune, and the story -- deep and true -- of an American woman in search of herself.


From the Trade Paperback edition.