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John Updike - The Centaur

 
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This portrait of small-town life in Pennsylvania is seen through the eyes of Chiron, the centaur of Greek mythology. On the surface, this is a novel about teenager Peter Caldwell and his father George Caldwell, a schoolteacher at Olinger High. Gradually, however, it becomes clear that Peter and George are really Prometheus and Chiron, and that all the other characters and events find correspondences in Greek mythology. John Updike has said that this early novel is loosely based on his own relationship with his father, who was a schoolteacher.
 
 

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Authors John Updike
Fiction Genre Unknown
Fiction Subgenre Unknown
Awards 1964 National Book Award

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  Best Sellers: "The plan of the book does succeed in escaping the John Erskine kind of re-creation, but the novelty of its formula has more technical than popular interest. Both in method and content the story is for adults."

Book Editions

  Format: Paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books (September 01, 1996)
Measurements: 8.25"(h) x 5.75"(w) x 1"(d), 0.65 lbs.
ISBN: 9780449912164
 

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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. From the Paperback edition.
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