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S. / John Updike.
Van Pelt Library PS3571.P4 S17 1988
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Updike, John.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Communal living--Fiction.
- Communal living.
- Arizona--Fiction.
- Arizona.
- Cults--Fiction.
- Cults.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Updike, John (autograph) (RBC copy) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 279 pages ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Knopf, 1988.
- Summary:
- New Englander Sarah Worth goes west to join a Hindu commune in Arizona. There she mingles with the other sannyasins (pilgrims) in the difficult attempt to subdue ego and achieve salvation and release from illusion.
- Local Notes:
- Rare Book copy has autograph from Dean's Forum at Penn, 1988.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 1 has dustjacket retained.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2 signed by the author.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 in slipcase.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2: "Of the first edition ... three hundred and fifty copies have been printed on special paper and specially bound. Each copy is signed by the author and numbered"--first page.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 is no. 249.
- ISBN:
- 0394568354 :
- OCLC:
- 17385299
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