VillagesA stunningly sensuous novel from the bestselling John Updike, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Villages chronicles Owen Mackenzie's life story, which is rich with sin and seduction, domesticity and debauchery. His marriage to his college sweetheart is swiftly followed by his first betrayal, leading him into a series of affairs. Owen's pursuit of happiness, traversing a succession of small towns from Pennsylvania to Massachusetts,