The Centaur, (Paperback)

from JuliaEllen

While this novel starts off pretty slowly (and a bit confusing until you can just accept that the main character switches between being George Caldwell and Chiron the Centaur), but as you get into ...

from AlanWPowers

One of Updike's three best, according to Updike--on two, this and A Month of Sundays. I add Rabbit at Rest, which I consider his best because of his application of his great theme to Florida--exist...

from ijhodgson

Outstanding early novel from Updike. Underrated, and on a par with 'Catcher in the rye' for insights into childhood relationships and growing through adolescence (though this is from the parent per...

from whitewavedarling

Updike's prose is so artful, this story is gorgeously told, and there are scenes that will stay with me for some time. Yet, for whatever reason, this book existed as a sort of gray area for me--I w...

from Crypto-Willobie

Well, it's Updike, so at least it doesn't suck stylistically... but this novel was a failure. In one sense it's the cap to his earliest 'Olinger' material (Olinger Stories, Poorhouse Fair, Of the F...