Villages

John Updike

earliest edition we have, 2004 Ballantine Books, 2005 paperback 336 pages

"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 i...

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Villages edition · 2006 · Penguin · 336 pages · 9780141020143
Villages edition · 2005 · Random House Large Print
Villages paperback · 2005 · Ballantine Books · 336 pages · 9780345477316
Villages edition · 2004 · Alfred A. Knopf · 321 pages

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