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...spent two winters camping out and gathering shells for a living in Key West. He was arrested at the Mayday antiwar demonstrations in Washington in 1971, and spent three days locked up in the basement of the Department of Justice. Afterward he sought spiritual growth in a Sikh ashram in Massachusetts, where he remained for five years before revolting against the power-hungry leader...
...John Updike. The scarlet letter on the dust jacket stands for Sarah Worth (nee Price), a wayward Massachusetts wife who runs off to an Indian guru's ashram in Arizona. Her messages home are consistently, if unconsciously, hilarious...
...series of knowing winks to Hawthorne's novel. Updike holds back from calling the novel A after the famous red letter which symbolized adultery and was emblazoned on Hester Prynne's dress. But he does send the adulterous Mrs. Worth to live in an A-frame house on an ashram in Arizona with a man named Ahrat. Updike, though, is not merely referring to that earlier novel, he is modernizing...
...John Updike (Knopf; $17.95). In this modern Scarlet Letter, a Massachusetts wife flees to a zany Arizona ashram, recounting her adventures in penetrating (and sometimes scarlet) letters...
John Updike' s latest novel sends a runaway wife to a phony ashram, where the blend of East and West, mysticism and sex is hilarious...