Kentavr: Romany, Rasskazy
by:
John Updike (author)
Cat Porter (author)
ISBN:
9785040037612 (5040037619)
Publish date: January 1st 1999
Publisher: EKSMO Press
Pages no: 608
Edition language: Russian
A few moments so sad they were beautiful. Very human characters. I found the Centaur metaphor inconsistently applied. It didn't make a lot of sense to me that an individual who loathed nature and loved cities and society should identify with a creature than rides the line between man and wild ani...
The strangest thing happened today: I went to a book fair and I was looking through the novels of one particular publisher. The lady in charge was talking to a thin old lady dressed in black. They started to recommend me some books and the old lady pointed to Updike's Centaur. She said it was a real...