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The Centaur by John Updike

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Self-Consciousness, March 1989
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Too Far To Go, June 1982
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THE CENTAUR
By: John Updike

Ballantine Books
September 1996
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Featuring: George Caldwell
320 pages
ISBN: 0449912167
EAN: 9780449912164
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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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