Couples: A Novel
by John Updike
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One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
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.
Praise for Couples
“Couples [is] John Updike’s tour de force of extramarital wanderlust.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Ingenious . . . If this is a dirty book, I don’t see how sex can be written about at all.”—Wilfrid Sheed, The New York Times Book Review
Details
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Author
- John Updike
- Format
- Paperback
- Published
- Aug 27, 1996
- ISBN-13
- 9780449911907
- ISBN-10
- 044991190X
- Pages
- 576
- Carton quantity
- 24 copies
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