The Centaur

Locations
Call Number: Fiction
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Includes index.
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 lose 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, blending the worlds of modern youth and ancient mythology.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

centaur submitted by karinnet on August 2, 2014, 10:41pm neigh neigh

Writing a novel that takes place in three days submitted by ccrose on August 28, 2019, 2:56pm It doesn’t mean the book is short but it does mean there is room to explore a parallel story of the past into the three days of the blizzard.