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The Centaur by John Updike

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Also by John Updike:

John Updike: The Collected Stories, September 2013
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The Complete Henry Bech, October 2006
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The Power and the Glory, March 2003
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Poorhouse Fair, February 1997
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Rabbit Redux, September 1996
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Rabbit At Rest, September 1996
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Rabbit Is Rich, September 1996
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Rabbit, Run, September 1996
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Month Of Sundays, September 1996
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The Witches of Eastwick, September 1996
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Couples, September 1996
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Self-Consciousness, March 1989
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Too Far To Go, June 1982
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The Centaur
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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