The Centaur: A Novel - Softcover

Updike, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0449912167 ISBN 13: 9780449912164

Publisher: Ballantine Books Inc., 1996

Synopsis

"A triumph of love and art." THE WASHINGTON POST

In a small Pennsylvania town in the late 1940s, schoolteacher George Caldwell yearns to find some meaning in his life. Alone with his teenage son for three days in a blizzard, Caldwell sees his son grow and change as he himself begins to lose touch with his life. Interwoven with the myth of Chiron, the noblest centaur, and his relationship to the Titan Prometheus, "The Centaur" is one of Updike's most brilliant novels.

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Review:

"A triumph of love and art."--The Washington Post

"A brilliant achievement . . . No one should need to be told that Updike has a mastery of language matched in our time only by the finest poets."--Saturday Review

"Unsurpassed . . . Natural, pertinent, fresh, subtle, and superbly written."--Newsweek

About the Author:

John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal. In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Updike died in January 2009.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books Inc.
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0449912167
• ISBN 13: 9780449912164
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304