![]() ![]() In a tour-de-force refashioning of the love triangle at the heart of Hawthorne’s classic tale, each man becomes involved in an extramarital affair. ![]() Roger Lambert, a middle-aged divinity professor, finds himself approached by Dale Kohler, an enthusiastic graduate student in computer science, who claims that recent technical advances in computing can establish the existence of God “as a fact.” In conversation, the two men grapple with fundamental questions of theology and philosophy-but their interests and passions are not confined to the mind and spirit. Roger’s Version (1986), a reimagining of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, explores Updike’s recurring themes of the tension between faith and reason and the pull of sexual desire, as well as the cosmic implications of contemporary scientific breakthroughs. The 1980s found novelist John Updike at the peak of his powers. ![]() Save $75 when you purchase the five-volume set of John Updike’s novels. ![]()
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