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Couples

by John Updike

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One of the signature novels of the American 1960s, Couples is a book that, when it debuted, scandalized the public with prose pictures of the way people live, and that today provides an engrossing epitaph to the short, happy life of the “post-Pill paradise.” It chronicles the interactions of ten young married couples in a seaside New England community who make a cult of sex and of themselves. The group of acquaintances form a magical circle, complete with ritualistic games, religious substitutions, a priest (Freddy Thorne), and a scapegoat (Piet Hanema). As with most American utopias, this one’s existence is brief and unsustainable, but the “imaginative quest” that inspires its creation is eternal.

Synopsis:

Couples is the book that has been assailed for its complete frankness and praised as an artful, seductive, savagely graphic portrait of love, marriage, and adultery in America. But be it damned or hailed, Couples drew back the curtain forever on sex in suburbia in the late twentieth century. A classic, it is one of those books that will be read — and remembered — for a long time to come.

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About the Author

John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal. In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Updike died in January 2009.

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Product Details

ISBN:

9780449911907

Author:

Updike, John

Publisher:

Random House Trade

Location:

New York :

Subject:

Literary

Subject:

Fiction

Subject:

American

Subject:

Novels and novellas

Subject:

American fiction (fictional works by one author)

Subject:

Adultery

Subject:

Married people

Subject:

Love stories

Subject:

Suburban life

Subject:

Adultery -- United States -- Fiction.

Subject:

Adultery -- Fiction.

Subject:

Literature-A to Z

Copyright:

1996

Edition Description:

Trade paper

Series Volume:

1394-1

Publication Date:

19960831

Binding:

TRADE PAPER

Grade Level:

General/trade

Language:

English

Illustrations:

Yes

Pages:

576

Dimensions:

8.24x5.56x1.02 in. .86 lbs.

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Product details 576 pages Fawcett Books - 1997-10-22 English 9780449911907 Reviews:

"Synopsis" by Random House, Couples is the book that has been assailed for its complete frankness and praised as an artful, seductive, savagely graphic portrait of love, marriage, and adultery in America. But be it damned or hailed, Couples drew back the curtain forever on sex in suburbia in the late twentieth century. A classic, it is one of those books that will be read — and remembered — for a long time to come.