Couples.
by John Updike
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Updike's First Novel
Much of the plot of Couples (which opens on the evening of March 24, 1962 and integrates historical events like the loss of the USS Thresher on April 10, 1963, the Profumo affair, and the Kennedy assassination in November 1963) concerns the efforts of its characters to balance the pressures of Protestant sexual mores against increasingly flexible American attitudes toward sex in the 1960s. The book suggests that this relaxation may have been driven by the development of birth control and the opportunity to enjoy what one character refers to as "the post-pill paradise."
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John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker . His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal. In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Updike died in January 2009.
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- Title
- Couples.
- Author
- John Updike
- Book Condition
- Used - Much of the plot of Couples (which opens on the evening of March 24, 1962 and integrates historical events like the loss of the
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- needs help
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- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Date Published
- (1968)
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- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Marriage; Christmas Catalog;
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