Roger's Version

As Roger Lambert tells it, he, a middle-aged professor of divinity, is buttonholed in his office by Dale Kohler, an earnest young computer scientist who believes that quantifiable evidence of God's existence is irresistibly accumulating. The theological-scientific debate that ensues, and the wicked strategies that Roger employs to disembarrass Dale of his faith, form the substance of this novel--these and the current of erotic attraction that pulls Esther, Roger's much younger wife, away from him and into Dale's bed. The novel, a majestic allegory of faith and reason, ends also as a black comedy of revenge, for this is Roger's version--Roger Chillingworth's side of the triangle described by Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter--made new for a disbelieving age.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Trade
Published: 08/27/1996
ISBN: 9780449912188
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.31h x 5.50w x 0.75d

Review Citations: Entertainment Weekly 02/13/2009 pg. 60