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by John Updike
FictionCultsMan-woman relationshipsCommunal livingAmerican fiction (fictional works by one author)
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Open LibraryAbout this book
New Englander Sarah Worth goes west to join a Hindu commune in Arizona. There she mingles with the other sannyasins (pilgrims) in the difficult attempt to subdue ego and achieve salvation and release from illusion.
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FictionCultsMan-woman relationshipsCommunal livingAmerican fiction (fictional works by one author)Arizona, fiction
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Arizona
About the author
John Updike
18 March 1932 – 27 January 2009
John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as poetry, art and literary criticism and children's books during his career. Hundreds of his stories, reviews, and poems appeared in *The New Yorker* starting in 1954. He also wrote regularly for *The New York Review of Books.* His most famous work is his "Rabbit" series, which chronicles the life of the middle-class everyman Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom over the course of several decades, …
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