Couples
by Updike, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0233960740
- ISBN 13
- 9780233960746
- Seller
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Blagoevgrad Region, Bulgaria
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About This Item
London: Andre Deutsch. Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket. 1968. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. Minor shelf wear to unclipped DJ, some foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. ; Stated 2nd impression at base of front fly. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Nice tight copy, no names inside. DJ artwork detail from Adam and Eve Sleeping by William Blake. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; 464 pages; All well-to-do, all thirty-five-ish, ten couples living in Tarbox, New England, form an excusive, competitive group. They are sociable, articulate and unhappy; they enjoy sailing, basketball and skiing; they play word games in the evenings - and adultery all the year round. Slipping in and out of affairs, their rituals are observed by the baleful eye of their self-appointed ringmaster, Freddy Thorne. .
Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Books in Bulgaria
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7997
- Title
- Couples
- Author
- Updike, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; Second Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0233960740
- ISBN 13
- 9780233960746
- Publisher
- Andre Deutsch
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1968
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- Fireside Reads;
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