- Fiction, Married people, Suburban life, Adultery
Follows the lives of a group of couples in an upperclass Boston suburb through their parties, recreations, child neglect, and wife-swapping.
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Cool, prestige, classical in form and spare.
- cooloverwhelming
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- John Updike
- First published
- 1968
- Pages
- 482
- Publisher
- Random House, Incorporated, A. Bonniers, Prosveta
- Editions
- 98
- Language
- bul, Dutch, srp, Portuguese
- ISBN
- 9789029550284
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John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as poetry, art and literary criticism and children's books during his career. Hundreds of his stories, reviews, and poems appeared in *The New Yorker* starting in 1954. He also wrote regularly for *The New York Review of Books.* His most famous work is his "Rabbit" series, which chronicles the life of the middle-class everyman Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom over the course of several decades,
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