Villages, a Novel by Updike, John - 2004

New York.: Alfred A Knopf / A Borzoi Book., 2004. First edition.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Slight spine tilt. Minor sun discoloration (lavender) to jacket spine overlap. Clean.. Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (The Turkish Bath, 1862, cover illustration by). 1 Red Cloth over boards. Illustrated DJ. 336 p. Audience: General/trade. Fiction, somewhat autobiographical, spanning the Depression era thru the early 21st century, set from Pennsylvania to New England. This 21st Updike novel follows its hero Owen Mackenzie from his birth in Depression Era semi-rural Pennsylvania until his retirement in the geriatric community of Haskell's Crossing, MA. Benefiting from both a technical and liberal education, he began as a computer programmer and entrepreneur in Connecticut. He's been married twice, having initially given over his innocence to the generosity of women. Throughout, the villages, each of them, have been his center.