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Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0449912167
ISBN-13: 9780449912164
Sep 1996
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
302 pages
Reissue
Language: English |
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Synopsis
This portrait of small-town life in Pennsylvania is seen through the eyes of Chiron, the centaur of Greek mythology. On the surface, this is a novel about teenager Peter Caldwell and his father George Caldwell, a schoolteacher at Olinger High. Gradually, however, it becomes clear that Peter and George are really Prometheus and Chiron, and that all the other characters and events find correspondences in Greek mythology. John Updike has said that this early novel is loosely based on his own relationship with his father, who was a schoolteacher.
| Size | | Length: | 302 pages | | Height: | 8.3 in | | Width: | 5.8 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 10.4 oz |
Industry Reviews
"The plan of the book does succeed in escaping the John Erskine kind of re-creation, but the novelty of its formula has more technical than popular interest. Both in method and content the story is for adults."
Sutherland
"Updike's enormous, unbalanced metaphor eventually topples off the edge of audacity into preciousness."
Sutherland
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