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Updike subtitles the novel "a romance," an artistic sleight of hand by which he allows himself the generous introduction of coincidences. The resonances of the original romance, the Garden of Eden parable, are plentiful. Jerry is a sort of suburban Adam, hopelessly in love, tempted to make his passion public and thereby cross the threshold into the "new morality." Sally, for her part, reveals herself to be the bad Eve as the action progresses; essentially sinful, she demonstrates her greediness and her poison. Beneath her pious confessions of concern for the feelings and future of Ruth and her children...
...Lust and Eden...
...friendliness and a joy in simple pleasures -and simple ideas. It is row upon row of churches, Maginot-like bastions against the Forces of Darkness. It is the Darkness as well: a lust for guilty, drunken excess. And, perhaps most memorably, the South is sudden visions of Eden, like crossing the Black Warrior River in Alabama at dusk and looking down to see the Peaceable Kingdom, painted in gold and rust...
Seventeenth century England was much taken by Sir Walter Raleigh's description of an American demi-Eden where it was forever either spring or summer. This balmy land of the blest, he said, lay on the 35th parallel of north latitude-in present-day North Carolina. Rallying to Raleigh, for whom North Carolina named its capital, Southerners have ever since believed in their hearts that their region is kindlier, lovelier and more conducive to the good life than any other patch of earth this side of paradise, and not without reason...
...budget did not permit construction of the ark nor the assembling of all God's creatures. For the Creation story, Heyman wove together spectacular color footage of the sun and stars, flowing lava, beasts on the Kenya highlands and fish and flora along an ocean floor. In Eden, Adam and Eve are discreetly nude, and without navels. Heyman insists that he will film every jot and tittle of the Law of Moses, but his project will be well into the 1990s before he faces the challenge of dramatizing the doctrinal letters of the Apostle Paul...