Villages : [a novel]
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2004., New York : Knopf :, [2004].
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First edition.
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Canon City Public Library - FICTION | F UPDIKE | On Shelf |
Rampart Library District - Woodland Park - FICTION | F Upd | On Shelf |
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Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2004., New York : Knopf :, [2004].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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Description
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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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Updike, J. (2004). Villages: [a novel] (First edition.). Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Updike, John. 2004. Villages: [a Novel]. Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Updike, John. Villages: [a Novel] Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2004.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Updike, John. Villages: [a Novel] First edition., Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2004.
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