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Publisher: Random House

Author: John Updike

ISBN: 9780449912164

Fiction, Fantasy

The Centaur by
John Updike

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$ 450.00 mxn

The Centaur by

John Updike

Reviews

"A triumph of love and art."

The Washington Post

Summary

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.

Winner of the National Book Award and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger.

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