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Deadly Sins by Joyce Carol Oates, A.S. Byatt, John Updike, Mary Gordon, William Trevor, Gore Vidal, Thomas Pynchon

lutheranjulia's review

3.0

I read an excerpt of Updike's essay on Lust and borrowed the whole book from the library. Each essay is interesting and thought-provoking, though I liked the ones on Anger and Gluttony best. I'm not big on short stories or essays, so this was a challenge for a person who prefers long-form. However, the writing is excellent, if not the theology, and brings fresh perspective to the concepts of sin and virtue.