VillagesBy: John Updike A delightful, witty, passionate novel that follows its hero from the Depression era to the early twenty first centuryfrom a master of American letters and the Pulitzer Prize winning author of the acclaimed Rabbit series. John Updikes twenty first novel, a bildungsroman, follows Owen Mackenzie from his birth in the semi rural Pennsylvania town of Willow to his retirement in the rather geriatric community of Haskells Crossing,