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Couples

John Updike

Paperback | Pages: 570 pages

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Original Title:	Couples
ISBN:	044991190X (ISBN13: 9780449911907)
Edition Language:	English

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Couples is the book that has been assailed for its complete frankness & praised as an artful, seductive, savagely graphic portrait of love, marriage & adultery in America. But be it damned or hailed, Couples drew back the curtain forever on sex in suburbia in the late 20th century. A classic, it's one of those books that will be read & remembered for a long time to come.

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Title	:	Couples
Author	:	John Updike
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 570 pages
Published	:	August 27th 1996 by Random House Trade Paperbacks (first published 1968)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Literature. American. Novels

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(In November 2015, my rare-book service sold a first edition, first printing of John Updike's Couples through our eBay account [http://ebay.com/usr/cclapcenter]. Below is the write-up I did for its listing.)Like so many of the great authors of the Postmodernist era, John Updike by the late 1960s had already established himself through the usual channels of the Mid-Century Modernist age before -- he had been a staff writer for The New Yorker, where he had come directly after his stint at the

You know when a guilty man sets about justifying his behaviour, how he strives for big philosophical words and at the same time to bring all his charm to the fore to justify the petty thing he did? Well, this entire novel is a bit like that. It's about ten couples in suburban America in the 1960s. It's like a medieval banquet of sex, climaxing with the moral equivalent of gout. Apart from anything else it's all wildly implausible. A balding middle-aged man of average intelligence and no creative

Couldn't even finish this book--and I tried pretty hard. These couples just became insufferable after a while, everyone cheating on one another and then doing nothing to make their lives what they want it to be. A bunch of miserable people complaining a lot and longing after one another--a real slog to get through.

I expected more from Updike's classic bestseller hailed as an exposé of infidelity in America's suburbs. While I can see how this could have been ground-breaking and provocative when it was written in 1968, I'm afraid societal changes in sexual mores have rendered this a bit irrelevant. Despite current controversy over the #metoo movement, clearly our country has progressed beyond the level of chauvinism accepted by the denizens of Tarbox, Massachusetts. I had to write the names of the 10 Tarbox

Thou shalt not commit adultery Exodus 20:14. But days in a small town are empty and everyone needs something to fill the hole in ones day to day living. So adultery becomes practically the only entertainment and the transgression of this commandment is no longer sin but blissShe seemed to float on her bed at a level of bliss little altered by his coming and going and thus worked upon him a challenge; at last she confessed he was hurting her and curled one finger around the back of his ear to

I read "Couples" while living in Greece. There is nothing more opposite than Updike and Greece. One is bereft of worldly experience and the latter is a cornucopia of it. This was one of those books you read in short spurts, coming back to it out of a feeling of duty rather than from suspense or interest.Also, it's not a book to read right after you've just married, which I did. Hence, I found it boring and irrelevant. Like everything else, reviews must take into account the flow of time

What I learned from this book...With a name like "Foxy," it is very likely you will have an affair with the earthy married contractor who's remodeling your house. If your husband is a super-brainy scientist exploring the mysteries of life at the cellular level, it is very likely he will neglect your emotional and sexual needs, and deny you a child for years until your marriage is almost curdled.If you finally do get pregnant, your brainy husband will be turned off but the earthy married