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.
Stiff Martinis and Bitter Marriages
I was an innocent when I first read Updike, and I can still remember those late teenage afternoons when, in an agony of tedium, I haunted the aisles of second-hand bookshops and Manchester Central...
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