Editions

Villages

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241983799

  • Length: 336  Pages

  • Dimensions: 181mm x 20mm x 111mm

  • Weight: 184g

  • RRP: £8.99

Villages

Owen Mackenzie's life story abounds with sin and seduction, domesticity and debauchery. His marriage to his college sweetheart is quickly followed by his first betrayal and he embarks upon a series of affairs. His pursuit of happiness, in a succession of small towns from Pennsylvania to Massachusetts, brings him to the edge of chaos, from which he is saved by a rescue that carries its own fatal price.

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241983799

  • Length: 336  Pages

  • Dimensions: 181mm x 20mm x 111mm

  • Weight: 184g

  • RRP: £8.99

Reviews

  • Hats off to the man for negotiating with aplomb the highly compartmentalised facets of the male psyche, and the grey no-go-zones of conjugal life

    Douglas Kennedy

  • Energetic, funny and perceptive

    Esquire

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About the Author

John Updike

John Updike was born in 1932, in hillington, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954, and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker, and since 1957 has lived in Massachusetts. He is the father of four children and the author of more than fifty books, including collections of short stories, poems, essays, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize (twice), the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Award, and the Howells Medal. A previous collection of essays, Hugging the Shore, received the 1983 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism.

John Updike

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