Edward Abbey | The Nation

The article focuses on the book "Roger's Version," by John Updike. In the book, a professor of theology named Roger Lambert, subsiding comfortably into middle age, is aroused from his dogmatic slumbers by Dale Kohler, a young student of computer science. Dale meets the professor's wife, the professor meets Dale's girlfriend, and the author is turned loose once again upon his specialty, suburban deception. As in every work by Updike, the conclusion is crushing, satisfactory and comes not a page too soon.