Couples.

Literature & Fiction

UPDIKE, John.

Literary

Alfred.A. Knopf

The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful and painful. The texts are taken from his recent omnibus, The Early Stories, 1953-1975.In describing how he wrote these stories in a small, rented, smoke-filled office in Ipswitch, Massachusetts, he says, "I felt that I was packaging something as delicately pervasive as smoke, one box after another, in that room, where my only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me -- to give the mundane its beautiful due."

The John Updike Audio Collection CD

Contemporary

Caedmon

couples

Fawcett-Crest

It's 1969 and Rabbit has changed, as America has changed in the intervening ten years since the book "Rabbit, Run". His marriage is collapsing, his job is redundant and the urgency of racial tension present a challenge neither his consciousness nor his sexuality can resist.

Rabbit redux

Penguin??Books

A Month of Sundays

Banished to a desert retreat for recalcitrant clerics, the reverend but randy Thomas Marshfield preens his fantasies. This book, written as occupational therapy, is his confession and his testament.

Fawcett Publishing

Sally is blonde, expensively dressed and married to Richard. He is the generous husband, making the kind of drunken compromise a man has to make when he is married to a desirable woman. Jerry met his wife Ruth at art school and for all their married lives, Jerry and Sally have been lovers.

Marry Me : A Romance

Penguin Books, Ltd.

The witches of Eastwick

The air of Eastwick breeds witches - women whose longings can stir up thunderstorms and fracture domestic peace. Jane, Alexandra and Sukie, divorced and dangerous, have formed a coven. Into the void of Eastwick breezes Darryl Van Home, a charismatic magus of a man who entrances the trio.

The Witches of Eastwick

A born-again computer whiz kid bent on proving the existence of God on his computer meets a middle-aged divinity professor, Roger Lambert, who'd just as soon leave faith a mystery. Soon the computer hacker begins an affair with professor Lambert's wife -- and Roger finds himself experiencing deep longings for a trashy teenage girl.From the Paperback edition.

ROGER'S VERSION.

KNOPF. NY 1986

52-year-old Roger is a professor in the divinity school. Into his stuffy life breezes his 19-year-old half-niece, Verna. So when his wife starts a thing with a spotty, evangelical computer freak, he feels tempted to examine his niece's thesis that "girls just wanna have fun".

Roger's Version

Penguin Putnam~trade

Rabbit At Rest

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