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Found 3 from your keywords: author="Updike, John"
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The Centaur
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Updike, John

The Centaur is a modern retelling of the legend of Chiron, the noblest and wisest of the centaurs, who, painfully wounded yet unable to die, gave up his immortality on behalf of Prometheus. In the retelling, Olympus becomes small-town Olinger High School; Chiron is George Caldwell, a science teacher there; and Prometheus is Caldwell’s fifteen-year-old son, Peter. Brilliantly conflating the au…

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9780449912164
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298p; bw; pbk
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823 UPD c
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Gertrude and Claudius
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Gertrude and Claudius are the “villains” of Hamlet: he the killer of Hamlet’s father and usurper of the Danish throne; she his lusty consort, who marries Claudius before her late husband’s body is cold. But in this imaginative “prequel” to the play, John Updike makes a case for the royal couple that Shakespeare only hinted at. Gertrude and Claudius are seen afresh against a backgrou…

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9780449006979
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212p; bw; pbk
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823 UPD g
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Rabbit, Run
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Updike, John

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9780141187839
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280p; bw; pbk
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823 UPD r

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ISBN/ISSN
9780141187839
Collation
280p; bw; pbk
Series Title
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Call Number
823 UPD r