Name: Centaur
ISBN: 9780449912164

John Updike

Centaur

Fraser Simons

3.5 rounded up
Well written and interesting concept. Overwritten in the way you’d expect for something so literary. Extremely granular and sometimes overly flowery, close to purple. And, for that matter, misogynist in the way you’d expect for the time period, for that time matter. Grating as heck sometimes. But I do like stories with a capital p Point, and this is very much that, so I managed to focus on the qualities I found interesting and evocative.