The centaur
By: John Updike
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 1970
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
Copyright date: 1963
Description: 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 one of John Updike's most brilliant and unusual novels.
Notes: Includes index.

Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction for 1964

National Book Award Winner for Fiction, 1964