The Centaur

Name: The Centaur
ISBN: 9780449912164

John Updike

1963·272 pages

Fantasy Literary Fiction

art and creativity classics family dynamics frame story grief and loss introspective

★ National Book Award (1964) · Winner

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.

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