Roger's Version

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. 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. 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.

• Author
• John Updike

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 352

• Publisher
• Random House Trade Paperbacks

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780449912188

• Genres
• fiction, literature, novels, religion, american, contemporary, sexuality

• Release date
• 1996