Dr. Pradipta Sengupta Department of English(U.G.& P.G.) M.U.C.Women’s College B.C.Road, Burdwan-713104 In an interview 1 with Prof. Sukhbir Singh (Osmania University, Hyderabad) John Updike explained what he called his “Hawthorne novels”. Updike’s three later novels – A Month of Sundays (1975), Roger’s Version (1986) and S (1988) – comprise his “Hawthorne novels”. Each of these…