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Villages : a novel

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  • ""Owen Mackenzie's life story abounds with sin and seduction, domesticity and debauchery. After growing up in the small town of Willow, Owen marries the elegant and remote Phyllis, his college girlfriend. But this soon leads to his first betrayal and he abandons his reserve, embarking on a series of affairs and sexual encounters in New England and as far as Las Vegas. Nevada. This is in America during the revolutionary sixties and seventies, and Owen's profession as a computer programmer does not shelter him from the era's reckless appetites. Owen's 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."
  • "John Updike's 21st novel follows its hero, Owen Mackenzie, from his birth in the semi-rural Pennsylvania town of Willow to his retirement in the rather geriatric commmunity 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. Owen's education 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."
  • "Het levensverhaal van de mede-eigenaar van een Amerikaans computerbedrijf met nadruk op de dorpen waarin hij heeft gewoond van 1930 tot heden."
  • "This novel is a bildungsroman describing the education, romantic and otherwise, of Owen Mackenzie. Owen's education (at M.I.T.) and his successful software company take him from the village of his birth, Willow, in eastern Pennsylvania, to Haskell's Crossing, in eastern Massachusetts, where he expects to end his days. In the course of this modest life's journey, the communal humanity of villages, chiefly embodied in their female citizens, seeks to humanize him, assuaging and chastening his childhood sense of singularity and foreboding. He knows that the quotidian surface holds an abyss of calamity beneath it, but he strives to cling to his dreamlike sense of leading a charmed life, an attempt in which he is encouraged by his two wives, Phyllis and Julia, and a number of other women. The time stretches from the hero's childhood in the 1930s to his retirement in the present century."
  • "Owen Mackenzie's life story abounds with sin and seduction, domesticity and debauchery. Sexually repressed as a young man, Owen later marries the elegant and remote Phyllis, his college girlfriend. But this soon leads to his first betrayal and he abandons his reserve, embarking on a succession of passionate affairs across New England. His compulsion to pursue other men's wives grows stronger and stronger as he fails to find satisfaction in his married life."
  • "Owen Mackenzie, now in his 70s and living in the small village of Haskell's Crossing, Conn., with his second wife, Julia, spends his days immersed in the daily routines of retirement while reminiscing about his childhood town of Willow, Pa., and the village where he spent his adulthood, Middle Falls, Conn."

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  • "Translations"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Bildungsromans"
  • "Bildungsromans"@en
  • "Large type books"
  • "Roman psychologique"
  • "American fiction"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "French language materials"
  • "Americké romány"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Powieść amerykańska"

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  • "Villaggi"@it
  • "Villaggi"
  • "Chōria : mythistorēma"
  • "Villages : roman"
  • "Dorpen : roman"
  • "Derevni : [roman]"
  • "Villages : [a novel]"
  • "Vesnice"
  • "Деревни : [роман]"
  • "빌리지스 = Villages"
  • "Landleben : Roman"
  • "Villages : a novel"
  • "Villages : a novel"@en
  • "Landleben Roman"
  • "Derevni"
  • "Miasteczka"
  • "Miasteczka"@pl
  • "Villaggi : [Romanzo]"
  • "Mujeres"
  • "Mujeres"@es
  • "Falvak : [regény]"@hu
  • "Деревни"
  • "Småstadsliv"@sv
  • "Småstadsliv"
  • "Villages a novel"@en
  • "Villages a novel"
  • "Falvak"
  • "Bilrijiseu = villages"
  • "Villaggi : [romanzo]"
  • "Orăşele"
  • "빌리지스 = villages"
  • "Landleben : roman"
  • "Villages"
  • "Villages"@en
  • "Pillijisŭ = Villages"
  • "Orăşele : [roman]"

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