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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 .)
About Couples. 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.
13 mar 2012 · 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).
Hardcover. $33.00. Paperback. $15.81. Mass Market Paperback. $5.66. Audio, Cassette. 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. ©2012 John Updike (P)2020 Random House Audio.
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27 ago 1996 · 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...
Couples is a 1968 novel by American author John Updike . Contents. 1Summary. 2Plot and characters. 3Reception. 4Cultural significance. 5Updike on Couples. 6References. 7External links. Summary. The novel depicts the lives of a promiscuous circle of ten couples in the small Massachusetts town of Tarbox.
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.
