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Couples: A Novel

Categorie	Engels
Boeknummer	#321458-XA18
Titel	Couples: A Novel
Auteur	Updike, John
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	New York : Fawcett Columbine
Jaar van uitgave	1996
ISBN10	044991190X
ISBN13	9780449911907
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, 8vo.
Samenvatting	“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,... (Lees verder) 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.
Pagina's	458
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 8,00

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