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Lot 4 John Updike books (3PB) Terrorist, Rabbit at Rest, Couples, Licks of Love
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- Condition
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- Seller Notes
- ISBN
- 9780449911907
- Book Title
- Couples : a Novel
- Item Length
- 8.3in
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 1996
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Psychological, Sagas, Literary
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 18 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 576 Pages
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"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 Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
044991190x
ISBN-13
9780449911907
eBay Product ID (ePID)
27038290909
Product Key Features
Book Title
Couples : a Novel
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Psychological, Sagas, Literary
Publication Year
1996
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
576 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.3in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
18 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3571.P4c6 1996
Edition Number
1
Reviews
" 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 narcotics, 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, "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
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