by John Updike. Knopf, $ This is a poor novel irritatingly marred by good features. The title, grindingly reinforced by the tasteful Hellenic fragment on the cover, sounds the warning note of “significance” and the severe intention is further signaled by a dark quotation from Karl Barth on the title page: something about man being “a Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins. The Centaur is John Updike's third novel, it won the National Book Award in , and is a loose retelling of the Greek myth of Chiron, noblest of all Centaurs. George Caldwell is Chiron. It is and George is unhappily though gratefully employed as a high school teacher in the small Pennsylvania town where some of Updike's novels are set/5. The Centaur is a novel by John Updike, published in Winner of the National Book Award, the novel uses the myths and legends of the ancient world in order to add gravitas to what would otherwise be a mundane, modern scenario. The story opens as George Caldwell, a teacher at Olinger High School in the s, is wounded by an arrow in his.
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by Updike, John. John Hoyer Updike was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic. His novel, The Centaur, won the National Book Award in It is the story of George Caldwell, an aging, self-deprecating high school teacher and his bewildered son Peter, taking place in a small Pennsylvania town. John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in He graduated from Harvard College in and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From to he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics. The Centaur is John Updike's third novel, it won the National Book Award in , and is a loose retelling of the Greek myth of Chiron, noblest of all Centaurs. George Caldwell is Chiron. It is and George is unhappily though gratefully employed as a high school teacher in the small Pennsylvania town where some of Updike's novels are set.
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