John Updike — A Month of Sundays
London, Andre Deutsch, 1975. First edition. Cloth. A very smart review copy of the first UK edition of this novel from multiple Pulitzer Prize Winning novelist John Updike. First UK edition. Review copy with the request from the publisher. The first in the Scarlet Letter Trilogy. When the Reverend Thomas Marshfield shocks his bishop and congregation, as an alternative to defrocking he has been sent West to a desert retreat for errant clergymen. Written by John Hoyer Updike, an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic who was one of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once. In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with minor age toning to the endpapers. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Fine.