Villages by Updike, John instant download

Villages by Updike, John instant download

Dream on, Dear Owen -- Village sex--I -- The husband -- Village sex--II -- How Phyllis was won -- Village sex--III -- On the way to Middle Falls -- Village sex--IV -- Convalescence -- Village sex--V -- Developments in hardware -- Village sex--VI -- You don't want to know -- Village wisdom, \"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 Hasskells 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.\"--BOOK JACKET