Description
Good dust jacket, wear at the head and foot of spine and edges, tears have been tape repaired. The Very Good binding is blue cloth over boards, silver stamping on cover, silver stamping on spine, two areas on spine with fading to cloth and wrap to front cover, corners bumped. Bottom and fore-edges are untrimmed. The binding is tight and pages are clean. William Blake’s water-color drawing ” Adam and Eve Sleeping” and details from it are reproduced on the jacket by courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Jacket design by Jeanyee Wong.
About the book: (from the dust jacket)
COUPLES, John Updike’s fifth novel concerns the interactions of ten couples in an out-of-the-way New England community called Tarbox. The circle of acquaintance is felt as a magic circle, with ritual games, religious substitutions, a priest (Freddy Thorne). and a scapegoat (Pier Hanema). The action runs from the spring of 1963 through the following spring.
About the author: (from the dust jacket)
John Updike was born in 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania; he attended Harvard College and the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, in Oxford, England. From 1955 to 1957 he was a staff member of The New Yorker, to which he has contributed stories, essays, and poems. His previous novels are The Poorhouse Fair (1959), Rabbit, Run (1960), The Centaur (1963), and Of the Farm (1965).
