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The Centaur (Paperback)

by John Updike (Author)
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  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin; New Impression edition (27 April 1995)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0140023402
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140023404
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.2 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 369,260 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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 lost touch with his life. Interwoven with the myth of Chiron, the noblest centaur, and his own relationship to Prometheus, The Centaur is one of John Updike's most brilliant and unusual novels.


About the Author

John Updike was born in 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of the New Yorker, to which he has contributed poems, short stories, essays and reviews. Since 1957 he has lived in Massachusetts. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Howells Medal.

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5.0 out of 5 stars This is a gem, 6 Aug 2002
This short book was the first work of Updike I had ever read and I must say it left in me an unrelenting admiration for his story-telling abilities. The story is about three days in the life of a father-son duo, which stands to transform their lives forever. Updike fleets between the imaginary and real worlds in this novel with amazing dexterity. The metaphorical descriptions and the imagery he creates are truly worth admiring.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic, 1 Aug 2009
Reading this book reminded me of slipping in and out of day dreams as a child. John's writing is captivating despite the fact that the storyline never quite lifts from normality and his descriptions of every passing moment is based on the minutest of details.

It is true to say that he makes the ordinairy extraordinairy and carries you with his thoughts wherever they may be.

A heart warming read.
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