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Book Review of The Centaur

The Centaur
The Centaur
Author: John Updike
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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Winner of the 1964 National Book Award for Fiction. John Updike gives a courageous and brilliant account of a conflict in gifts between an inarticulate American father and his highly articulate son. He readily takes on the risk of flamboyance in pursuing an acuteness of feeling and introduces a cast of Gods and Goddesses into rural Pennsylvania.

This book is a Hardcover, and weighs less then 1 lb.