S.
272 pages
|Published: 1 Jan 1995
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This edition
ISBN: 9780449912126
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Publication date: 3 September 2013
Description
S. is the story of Sarah P. Worth, a thoroughly modern spiritual seeker who has become enamored of a Hindu mystic called the Arhat. “S. ” details her adventures in letters and tapes dispatched to her husband, her daughter, her brother, her dentist, her hairdresser, and her psychiatrist—messages cleverly designed to keep her old world in order while she is creating for herself a new one. This is Hester Prynne’s side of the triangle described by Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter; it is also a burlesque of the quest for enlightenment, and an affectionate meditation on American womanhood.
