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- Publisher: Ballantine Books
- ISBN: 044991190X
- WAPI (Tower ID): 100316356
- Release Date: August 1, 1996
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #239348 in Books (See Top 100 Books Bestsellers)
- #29467 in Fiction & Literature (See Top 100 Fiction & Literature Bestsellers)
- #1837 in Literary (See Top 100 Literary Bestsellers)
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Product DescriptionRun a Quick Search on "Couples" by John Updike to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "Couples"Browse more products related to "John Updike"Review"[C]ertainly marital infidelity has never been celebrated with such sad, piercing beauty as it is in COUPLES..., a key document of the Sixties and one of that low decade's most exquisitely literary achievements, a stylistically bravura performance by a writer working at the top of his talent." "Certainly this novel will cause controversy, but because it so correctly and dramatically diagnoses the moral disease which is eating at the soft vitals of the American middle class, it should quickly assume the status of a major novel." "[The book can] be read simply as a fiendish compendium of exurban manners--the dinner party scenes, the protocol of adultery, the care and neglect of children. The games are described with loving horror. The incidents of wife-swapping are a nice blend of Noel Coward and Krafft-Ebing. As to that style--it is there in set-pieces, which can almost be read separately...Updike's weakness is not too much beauty but too much precision; he tells you more than you want to know, in words as arcane and exact as old legal language...[In this book] he has written a painful natural history of Man, and it would have been in his interest to make it big with personal tragedy. But this goes against his religion. So instead, it trails off on a note of irony...Existence is tragedy enough for a Calvinist temperament like his own." Publisher's noteExplores the consequences of marital infidelity in a small New England community. AnnotationIn the Boston suburb of Tarbox live a group of well-to-do married couples whose lives intersect through mutual infidelities and shared sexual obsessions. John Updike charts the links and fissures in this intricate and hedonistic social network with his usual grace and wit. Sexually candid, even shocking at the time it was published, this 1968 novel--an international bestseller--is an unsparing look at the "sexual revolution" in America and its consequences, and at Updike's own generation as they approached middle age in the 1970s. If You Enjoy "Couples (Paperback)", May We Also Recommend:Customer Reviews for "Couples (Paperback)" by John Updike (Author)There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review! Literary Bestsellers
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