Couples
Language: English
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: Mar 13, 2012
Words:
164512
Flesch:
84.26
DDC:
813.54
FAST Tags:
United States,
English fiction,
Married people,
Interpersonal relations,
Adultery,
New England,
Suburban life,
Couples
LCC:
PS3571.P4
LC Genre:
Literature>American and Canadian>Fiction>20th Century>1945-1999
Book Details
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Description:
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, 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.
From the Trade Paperback edition.