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Owen Mackenzie''s life story abounds with sin and seduction, domesticity and debauchery. His marriage to his college sweetheart is quickly followed by his first betrayal and he embarks upon a series of affairs. His 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.

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Villages John Updike Penguin Essentials 76

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
      Published 6 July 2018
      ISBN-13 9780241983799
      978-0241983799
      ISBN-10 0241983797
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      Contemporary Fiction Books by John Updike

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      Book Synopsis
      Owen Mackenzie''s life story abounds with sin and seduction, domesticity and debauchery. His marriage to his college sweetheart is quickly followed by his first betrayal and he embarks upon a series of affairs. His 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.

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      Hats off to the man for negotiating with aplomb the highly compartmentalised facets of the male psyche, and the grey no-go-zones of conjugal life -- Douglas Kennedy
      Energetic, funny and perceptive * Esquire *

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