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...With The Centaur, his seventh published volume in the last six years, John Updike has switched into a new mode: use of the classic myth set up as framework for a contemporary tale. Updike readers will find it a bit of a jolt. One is used to seeing Updike detail the perfectly ordinary life; the marriage that never should have been, or, again and again, minutiae of his boyhood in rural Pennsylvania...
...Centaur, by John Updike. An imaginative retelling of the Greek myth in modern dress turns the tragic centaur Chiron into a long-suffering high school science teacher...
...Centaur, by John Updike. An imaginative retelling of the Greek myth in modern dress turns the tragic centaur Chiron into a long-suffering high school science teacher...
...CENTAUR (299 pp.)-John Updike -Knopf...
Updike can also create a character who does not leave the mind easily, and the title figure of The Centaur, a high school science teacher named Caldwell, is his best creation...