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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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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
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Villages John Updike Penguin Essentials 76

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    Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
    Publication Date: 6/7/2018 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780241983799, 978-0241983799
    ISBN10: 0241983797
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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.

    Trade Review
    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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