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Couples is a 1968 novel by American author John Updike . Overview. The novel depicts the lives of a promiscuous circle of ten couples in the small Massachusetts town of Tarbox. (When he composed the book, the author was living in Ipswich, Massachusetts .)
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.”
13 de mar. de 2012 · 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...
13 de mar. de 2012 · 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.”
John Updike (Author), Ari Fliakos (Narrator), & 1 more. The provocative novel about sex in suburbia, striking in its complete sexual frankness and rightly praised as an artful, seductive, savagely graphic portrayal of love, marriage, and adultery in America.
John Updike’s novel “Couples” delves into the intricate web of human relationships, exposing the raw desires, complexities, and shortcomings that often lie beneath the surface. Set in the backdrop of a suburban community during the 1960s, the book unearths the struggles faced by ten couples as they grapple with love, infidelity, and the ...
The novel takes place in a New England town where the couples have formed a magic circle of friends to keep the night out. Affluence, enlightenment, boredom, and an unspecified despair promotes the casual and condoned la ronde of erotic experience.
