Couples - Softcover

Updike, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140029443 ISBN 13: 9780140029444

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd, 1975

Synopsis

Couples

About this title

Review:

"I can think of no other novel, even in these years of our sexual freedom, as sexually explicit in its language...as direct in its sexual reporting, as abundant in its sexual activities." -- The Atlantic Monthly
"Trapped in their cozy catacombs, the couples have made sex by turns their toy, their glue, their trauma, their therapy, their hope, their frustration, their revenge, their narcotics, their main line of communication and their sole and pitiable shield against the awareness of death. Adultery, says Updike, has become a kind of 'imaginative quest' for successful hedonism that would enable man to enjoy an otherwise meaningless life....The couples of Tarbox live in a place and time that together seem to have been ordained for this quest." -- Time

""Couples" [is] John Updike's tour de force of extramarital wanderlust.""--The New York Times Book Review"
"Trapped in their cozy catacombs, the couples have made sex by turns their toy, their glue, their trauma, their therapy, their hope, their frustration, their revenge, their narcotic, their main line of communication and their sole and pitiable shield against the awareness of death."--"Time"
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"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"

"Couples" [is] John Updike s tour de force of extramarital wanderlust. " The New York Times Book Review"
Trapped in their cozy catacombs, the couples have made sex by turns their toy, their glue, their trauma, their therapy, their hope, their frustration, their revenge, their narcotic, their main line of communication and their sole and pitiable shield against the awareness of death. "Time"
""
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""

Couples [is] John Updike s tour de force of extramarital wanderlust. The New York Times Book Review
Trapped in their cozy catacombs, the couples have made sex by turns their toy, their glue, their trauma, their therapy, their hope, their frustration, their revenge, their narcotic, their main line of communication and their sole and pitiable shield against the awareness of death. Time

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"

"Couples [is] John Updike's tour de force of extramarital wanderlust."--The New York Times Book Review

"Trapped in their cozy catacombs, the couples have made sex by turns their toy, their glue, their trauma, their therapy, their hope, their frustration, their revenge, their narcotic, their main line of communication and their sole and pitiable shield against the awareness of death."--Time

"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

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Publication date: 1975
• ISBN 10: 0140029443
• ISBN 13: 9780140029444
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512