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John Updike's twenty-first novel, a bildungsroman, follows its hero, Owen Mackenzie, from his birth in the semi-rural Pennsylvania town of Willow to his retirement in the rather geriatric community of Haskells Crossing, Massachusetts. In between these two settlements comes Middle Falls, Connecticut, where Owen, an early computer programmer, founds with a partner, Ed Mervine, the successful firm of E-O Data, which is housed in an old gun factory on the Chunkaunkabaug River. Owen's education (Bildung) is not merely technical but liberal, as the humanity of his three villages, especially that of their female citizens, works to disengage him from his youthful innocence. As a child he early felt an abyss of calamity beneath the sunny surface quotidian, yet also had a dreamlike sense of leading a charmed existence. The women of his life, including his wives, Phyllis and Julia, shed what light they can. At one juncture he reflects, "How lovely she is, naked in the dark How little men deserve the beauty and mercy of women " His life as a sexual being merges with the communal shelter of villages: "A village is woven of secrets, of truths better left unstated, of houses with less window than opaque wall." This delightful, witty, passionate novel runs from the Depression era to the early twenty-first century.

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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1400042909
ISBN-13
9781400042906
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Product Key Features

Book Title
Villages : a Novel
Author
John Updike
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Psychological, Family Life, Literary, Coming of Age
Publication Year
2004
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
336 Pages

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Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
5.6in
Item Weight
17.5 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Ps3571.P4v55 2004
Copyright Date
2004
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2004-043845
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Dewey Edition
22

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