The Centaur
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...
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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 one of John Updike's most brilliant and unusual novels.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780449203712 (0449203719)
Publish date: July 12th 1987
Publisher: Fawcett
Edition language: English
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...
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