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

Couples

John Updike

Paperback | Pages: 570 pages

Rating: 3.59 | 4698 Users | 320 Reviews

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

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Ratings: 3.59 From 4698 Users | 320 Reviews

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In another review of another book Updike's work was described as representing the post-war 20th century experience. Specifically, the WASP experience with the occasional catholic and jew thrown in the mix. Not being American and having the 21st century, this is threatening his work with obsolescence. Luckily, some of this experience is universally human and lasting, making Couples a worthwile read today.It's about ten couples living in imaginary Tarbox, a small former fishermen's town about an

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I haven't read anything by John Updike for years so I picked up "Couples" at the library just so I could switch over to a prominent American writer for a change of pace. One of his most read books, "Couples" deals with the "new morality" that took hold amongst the young surburbanite married couples starting in the early 60's. Updike portrays this suburban culture in graphic, explicit terms, painting a picture of almost total inmorality amoung the couples of the town of "Tarbox". Even in 2011

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

I came to this book purposefully, wanting to engage in mental conversation about couples in the suburbs of New England. I have very recently been reading other (similar) authors on the same subject: Fitzgerald (Tender is the Night, anyone?) Cheever, Yates (Revolutionary Road is a cousin, theme-wise). Im not one to call these books outdated as some people have, as I usually find that 90% is universal and familiar in social behavior today. Couples, however, did feel dated because of the focus on

Nobody writes about infidelity quite as good as Updike. Well, Roth sometimes gets close, but particularly in Couples, the disintegration of the various couples in the small New England town is described with painful realism by John Updike. Each character is fully developed and is sometimes endearing, sometimes enraging but always compelling. After the Rabbit series, this was my favorite Updike book.

What is it that Jack says to Ennis in Brokeback Mountain? I wish I knew how to quit you? I think that's it, and that's exactly what I want to say to John Updike. . . I wish I knew how to quit you.I wish I knew how to quit you, John, quit this relationship I've gotten myself into with you. There are no cliffhangers here, no outbursts of laughter or joy, just a whole lot of painful examinations of life and much unwanted talk of our impending deaths.So, why do I stay? Is it the sex?Mmmm, yes, it