# Couples

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- Book: [Couples](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-updike/couples) ([Couples.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-updike/couples.md))
- Authors: [John Updike](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-updike)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4118-898-0
- Pages: 464
- Published: 2007-02-22
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

An intoxicating yet sensitive novel about the sexual experiences of ten couples from Tarbox, New England. Well-to-do, sociable, articulate but dangerously unfulfilled; they play word games in the evening and adultery all year round.