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Title: Couples by John Updike ISBN: 0-449-91190-X Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 27 August, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (15 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Sex
Comment: The original novel about wifeswapping at the onset of the sexual revolution. Entertaining and erotic.
Rating: 4
Summary: sex in the suburbs
Comment: a journey thru sex in the suburbs. updike has the gift to present his reader with a cynical side of life
Rating: 4
Summary: Unwinding Marriages
Comment: This is a slow and intricate tale by Updike, set in the early 1960s, concerning the lives of a group of married couples in the New England town of Tarbox. A new couple, the Whitmans, arrive in Tarbox. Almost immediately, Ken Whitman's pregnant wife, "Foxy", becomes the latest target for the serial adulterer, Piet Hanema.
All of the couples are characterised (plagued?) by their infidelity - a complicated network of adulterous relationships are being carried out in a semi-latent way. Updike teases the reader into wondering just how long the characters will cling to the self-delusion which blinds most of them to what is really going on. Each of the characters realises that truth will out, but nonetheless continues to carry on regardless. Updike unpicks their delusions slowly.
Of course, "Couples" is an unflattering picture of marriage - people are regarded by their partners (sexual and marital) as mere possessions, and as with all possessions the wanting is everything: the actual possession is bound to be (sooner or later, but mostly sooner) a disappointment compared to the heat of anticipation. Perhaps Updike thought that applied to the adults' view of their children too - however, the effect of the disintegrating marriages on the children is not explored in great detail in "Couples", apart from Piet's children, who show clear signs of being affected.
In the end, one is left wondering who exploits whom - it appears to be the men (Piet especially) who exploit the women, but is that really the case? Perhaps the women were being more subtle in their manipulations.
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Title: Marry Me : A Romance by John Updike ISBN: 0449912159 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 27 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller, Karl Jay Shapiro, Anais Nin ISBN: 0802131786 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: June, 1989 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: The Big Bang: Nerve's Guide to the New Sexual Universe by The writers at Nerve ISBN: 0452284260 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Rabbit Angstrom : The Four Novels : Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, Rabbit at Rest (Everyman's Library) by John Updike ISBN: 0679444599 Publisher: Everyman's Library Pub. Date: 17 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Self-Consciousness by John Updike ISBN: 044921821X Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 28 May, 1990 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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