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    <title>Couples</title>
    <subTitle>a novel</subTitle>
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    <namePart>Updike, John Hoyer</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1932-2009</namePart>
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  <genre authority="gsafd">Love stories.</genre>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>Random House Trade Paperbacks</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2012</dateIssued>
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    <edition>Random House Trade Paperback Edition.</edition>
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    <extent>557 pages ; 21 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Couples is the book that has been assailed for its complete frankness and praised as an artful, seductive, savagely graphic portrait of love, marriage, and adultery in America. But be it damned or hailed, Couples drew back the curtain forever on sex in suburbia in the late twentieth century. A classic, it is one of those books that will be read -- and remembered -- for a long time to come. -- Provided by publisher.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">John Updike.</note>
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    <topic>Married people</topic>
    <topic>Fiction</topic>
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    <topic>Suburban life</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Adultery</topic>
    <topic>Fiction</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">PS3571.P4 C6 2012</classification>
  <classification authority="ddc" edition="23">813/.54</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9780449911907</identifier>
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