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A Month of Sundays

by John Updike

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A Month of Sundays

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1975-02-26 [1975]

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New York Times bestseller (Fiction, 1975)

Epigraph

My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. --Psalm 45.

This principle of soul, universally and individually, is the principle of ambiguity. --Paul Tillich.

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For Judith Jones

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Forgive me my denomination and my town; I am a Christian minister, and an American.

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0394495519, Hardcover)

In this brilliant novel, John Updike has created one of his most memorable characters: the Reverend Tom Marshfield -- literate, charming, sexual -- whose outrageous behavior with the ladies of his flock scandalizes his parish....

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