Middle-aged, brilliant and bored, Roger Lambert is a professorof Divinity at a New England university. Firmly convinced thatreligious belief can only justified by recourse to pure faith, heis dismissive when visited by a gangling student who claims, withevangelical zeal, that computer technology is on the brink ofproving the existence of God. But when his unhappy wife flingsherself into an affair with the younger man, and Roger’s faith inhis own placid life is thrown into question. With his marriageclose to collapse, he finds himself increasingly drawn to his ownhalf-niece, the nineteen-year-old Verna, in this cunning and comicexploration of religion, uncertainty and passion.
【作者简介】
John (Hoyer) Updike (1932-) American novelist, short storywriter and poet, internationally known for his novels RABBIT, RUN(1960), RABBIT REDUX (1971), RABBIT IS RICH (1981), and RABBIT ATREST (1990). His latest novel is VILLAGES (Penguin, 2005) JohnBanville's novels include The Book of Evidence, Shroud and TheSea.
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