Author: John Updike
Translator: Jong-min Byun
Publisher: Young-rim Cardinal
383 pages | 223*152mm
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About This Book
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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