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Champion of the National Book Honor and the Prix Du Meilleur Livre Étranger The Centaur is a modern retelling of the star of Chiron, the noblest and wisest of the centaurs, who, painfully wounded yet struggling to die, quit his immortality with respect to Prometheus. In the retelling, Olympus becomes small-town Olinger SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL; Chiron is George Caldwell, a knowledge tutor there; and Prometheus is Caldwell's 15-year-old child, Peter. Brilliantly conflating the author's remembered past with tales from Greek mythology, John Updike translates Chiron's agonized seek out relief in to the incidents and damages of three winter days put in in rural Pa in 1947. The result, said the judges of the National Book Honor, is "a courageous and amazing account of a conflict in items between an inarticulate American dad and his highly articulate son".
