Placeholder text

Go to cart

Couples

By John Updike

Couples Contemporary literature

Couples

Only 4 items left in stock
Description
"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 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
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
572
Release Date:
1996-08-27
Publication Date:
1996-08-27
Publisher:
Random House Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
044991190X
ISBN13:
9780449911907
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
691 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
210 cm
Thickness:
31 cm

Condition

Show more

Show less
Good
The items bear minimal signs of past use, such as light scratches or memories in the form of markings. These signs of wear give the items a charming character and tell stories of their previous owners, while not affecting their functionality.
Available immediately
€4,49

Incl. VAT, plus shipping costs

PayPal
Visa
Mastercard
American Express
Only 4 items left in stock

Verified second-hand article

Verified second-hand item

Free shipping from 19€

€4,49