Top 10 John Updike Books
On the occasion of John Updike's passing, TIME takes a look at the prolific author's most memorable works.
A touching tale of the relationship between a high school teacher and his son (likely inspired by the author's own father, a teacher), Updike's third novel won him the National Book Award. The intensely personal aspects of the book are set off by the distancing parallels between the main characters and figures from ancient mythology — Prometheus and Chiron, the centaur of the book's title.
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