Novels 1968-1975: Couples / Rabbit Redux / A Month of Sundays By : John Updike
Book Excerpt :
This second volume in the Library of America edition of John Updike?s novels collects three unforgettable books from the late 1960s and the 70s that capture the turmoil of an America undergoing heady social change on several fronts at once?sexual, social, and moral. Always a master of meticulous observation and subtle characterization, Updike turned in this period to a wider social canvas and in so doing reached new heights of critical and commercial success, including an appearance on the cover of Time magazine.When Couples was published in 1968 it achieved instant notoriety because of its candor about the sexual revolution, then in full swing. (The Los Angeles Times called it ?America?s Most Explicitly Sexual Novel Ever.?) Shocking, entertaining, and searingly honest about human passions and their costs, Updike?s saga of the ?post-Pill paradise? of the Kennedy era details the rampant, jubilant, and inevitably complicated episodes of promiscuity among a tight-knit social set in the
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