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The Centaur Updike, John paperback Used - Good
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Item specifics
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- ISBN
- 9780449912164
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0449912167
ISBN-13
9780449912164
eBay Product ID (ePID)
478473
Product Key Features
Book Title
Centaur : a Novel
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1996
Topic
Mashups, Family Life, Literary
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
9.8 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
96-096690
TitleLeading
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Reviews
"A triumph of love and art."-- The Washington Post "A brilliant achievement . . . No one should need to be told that Updike has a mastery of language matched in our time only by the finest poets."-- Saturday Review "Unsurpassed . . . Natural, pertinent, fresh, subtle, and superbly written."-- Newsweek, "A triumph of love and art."- The Washington Post "A brilliant achievement . . . No one should need to be told that Updike has a mastery of language matched in our time only by the finest poets."- Saturday Review "Unsurpassed . . . Natural, pertinent, fresh, subtle, and superbly written."- Newsweek, "A Triumph Of Love And Art." -- The Washington Post "A brilliant achievement...No one should need to be told that Updike has a mastery of the language matched in our time only by the finest poets." -- Saturday Review "A brilliant and moving novel." -- The Baltimore Sun "Unsurpassed...Natural, pertinent, fresh, subtle, and superbly written." -- Newsweek "A classic...A beautiful and memorable book." -- The Critic
Synopsis
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRE TRANGER The Centaur is a modern retelling of the legend of Chiron, the noblest and wisest of the centaurs, who, painfully wounded yet unable to die, gave up his immortality on behalf of Prometheus. In the retelling, Olympus becomes small-town Olinger High School; Chiron is George Caldwell, a science teacher there; and Prometheus is Caldwell's fifteen-year-old son, Peter. Brilliantly conflating the author's remembered past with tales from Greek mythology, John Updike translates Chiron's agonized search for relief into the incidents and accidents of three winter days spent in rural Pennsylvania in 1947. The result, said the judges of the National Book Award, is "a courageous and brilliant account of a conflict in gifts between an inarticulate American father and his highly articulate son.", WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRE ÉTRANGER The Centaur is a modern retelling of the legend of Chiron, the noblest and wisest of the centaurs, who, painfully wounded yet unable to die, gave up his immortality on behalf of Prometheus. In the retelling, Olympus becomes small-town Olinger High School; Chiron is George Caldwell, a science teacher there; and Prometheus is Caldwell's fifteen-year-old son, Peter. Brilliantly conflating the author's remembered past with tales from Greek mythology, John Updike translates Chiron's agonized search for relief into the incidents and accidents of three winter days spent in rural Pennsylvania in 1947. The result, said the judges of the National Book Award, is "a courageous and brilliant account of a conflict in gifts between an inarticulate American father and his highly articulate son."
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