Book description
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. John
Updike was born in 1932. John Updike's first novel, The Poorhouse Fair
, was published in 1959. It was followed by Rabbit, Run
, Rabbit is Rich
(1981) and Rabbit at Rest
(1990), which were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Other novels
by John Updike include Marry Me
, The Witches of Eastwick
, which was made into a major feature film, Memories of the Ford Administration
, Brazil
, In the Beauty of the Lilies
and Toward the End of Time
.
