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.
John Updike died in January 2009..
In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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.
From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker.
He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art.
About the Author: John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932.
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 Scarlet Letter--made new for a disbelieving age.
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.
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
