Resultado da Busca
The novel is about Roger Lambert, a theology professor in his fifties, whose rather complacent faith is challenged by Dale, an evangelical Christian graduate student who believes he can prove that God exists with computer science.
- John Updike
- 1986
O romance é narrado por Roger Lambert, um professor de teologia na casa dos cinquenta anos, cuja fé um tanto complacente é desafiada por Dale, um estudante de pós-graduação que acredita poder provar a existência de Deus usando o computador.
Roger's version. Divinity professor, Roger Lambert, is visited by Dale Kohler, an earnest young student who wants a grant to prove the existance of God by computer.
12 de ago. de 1986 · In Roger’s Version, his eleventh novel, published in 1986, John Updike tells the sorry, sexually charged tale of faith-challenged Roger Lambert, 52: disgraced Methodist minister, now a theology professor at a university in an unnamed city on the northeast coast of the US.
- (1,4K)
- Paperback
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...
22 de abr. de 2011 · In Critical Mass's ongoing “In Retrospect,” in which contemporary critics revisit former winners and finalists for the National Book Critics Awards, Mark Athitakis revisits John Updike's Roger's Version, a finalist for the 1986 National Book Critics Circle award in fiction.
Roger's Version. John Updike. J. Curley, 1986 - Fiction - 511 pages. A born-again computer whiz kid bent on proving the existence of God on his computer meets a middle-aged divinity professor,...
