num_pages: 338
description: Middle-aged, brilliant and bored, Roger Lambert is a professor of Divinity at a New England university. Firmly convinced that religious belief can only justified by recourse to pure faith, he is dismissive when visited by a gangling student who claims, with evangelical zeal, that computer technology is on the brink of proving the existence of God. But when his unhappy wife flings herself into an affair with the younger man, and Roger's faith in his own placid life is thrown into question. With his marriage close to collapse, he finds himself increasingly drawn to his own half-niece, the nineteen-year-old Verna, in this cunning and comic exploration of religion, uncertainty and passion.
language: English
title: Roger's Version
titlecomplete: Roger's Version
genres: Literary Fiction, Literature, Fiction, Philosophy, Contemporary, Psychology, 20th Century, Religion, Novels, American
ratings_count: 1369
awards: awardedAt: 536486400000
name: Ambassador Book Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 504950400000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Penguin Books