Literary
Classics
1968
Couples by John Updike
Published in Spanish as Parejas
The provocative novel about sex in suburbia, striking in its complete sexual frankness and rightly praised as an artful, seductive, savagely graphic portrayal of love, marriage and adultery in…
What it is
A small town hiding secrets · comedy with teeth
What happens in it
Small-town secrets
Slow-burn romance
How it feels
Reading sheet
How it's told
- Who tells it
- A narrator who knows it all
- Style
- Literary
Before you pick it up
Is it for you?
It's for you if…
- you don't mind a love story that takes its time
- you like dry, sideways humour
- you're drawn to the dark side of people
Maybe not if…
- you'd rather skip the hard scenes
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