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Couples
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For the album by
The Long Blondes, see
"Couples" (album).
1st edition (publ.
Knopf)
Couples is a 1968 novel by
American author
John Updike.
Contents
Summary
The novel focuses on a promiscuous circle of ten couples in the small
Massachusetts town of Tarbox. (The author was living in
Ipswich, Massachusetts when he composed the book.)
Plot
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) 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."
The book is rich in period detail. (In 2009, ) The lyrical and explicit descriptions of sex, unusual for the time, made the book somewhat notorious.