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Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. A5 - A German language edition hardcover book in very good condition with a dust jacket in very good- condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in green cloth covered boards and illustrated endpapers with very minor overall shelf wear with light tanning of the outside paper edges. The dust jacket has very minor overall shelf wear with a closed tear (less than 0.25") at the front bottom left corner and another (about 0.5") at the back top right corner plus there is some light overall edge wear with creasing plus there is some light yellowing of the endflaps. The story is set in a fictional American small town it describes the lives of a group of upper middle class couples who meet each other regularly for dinner, sports and agree to cocktail parties. The loose circle of friends at the heart of the novel and consists of ten married couple. The men are wealthy building contractors, academics and doctors and the women are all housewives. Initially Updike presents the individual marriages and the friendships within this group as stable but he gradually makes it clear that indifference, contempt, misunderstandings and alienation have crept into every relationship. The novel is set against the political background of the 1960s and offers a critical perspective on life among the upper middle class in small-town America. Each of the main characters suffers from self-doubt, alienation and boredom. At first adultery seems to be a way out of these feelings of emptiness but even the affairs eventually become dispassionately routine. Updike uses the story to question the value that American society has come to place on consumption since it appears that even friendships and sexuality have become comodities to be consumed. John Hoyer Updike (19322009) was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic. He produced more than twenty major novels and collections of short stories as well as collecitons of essays and poetry. In 1957 he left his job as editor of 'The New Yorker' to become a full-time professional writer. In 1958 his first book was published, a collection of poetry, and in 1959 his first novel was published. Updike is best known for his 'Rabbit' and his 'Bech Books' series of novels. The 'Rabbit' series: 'Rabbit, Run' (1960), 'Rabbit Redux' (1971), 'Rabbit is Rich' (1981), 'Rabbit at Rest' (1990) and 'Rabbit Remembered' (2002) were author's venue for capturing and commenting on the mateial development of the US and the changes in American sensibilities between the late 1950s and the end of the millennium. The 'Bech Books': 'Bech: A Book' (1970), 'Bech is Back' (1982), 'Bech at Bay' (1998) and 'The Complete Henry Bech' (2001) were used by Ubdike to portray, in a comic and broadly satirical way, his own personal literary persona. John Updike was the recipient of many major literary awards including repeated consideration for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Some of his more notable literary awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship (1959), the National Book Award in Fiction (1964, 1982), the O. Henry Prize (1966/1991), the National Medal of Arts (1989), two Pulitizer Prizes and the PEN/Faulkner Award (2004). Tarbox heisst das friedliche Städtchen, knapp eine Bahnstunde südlich von Boston, in dem hübsche Vögel, rauschende Bäume und saftiggrüne Rasenflächen, Gesundheit und Wohlstand, Tennis und Segeln, Basketball und gemeinsamer Wintersport, Dinnerpartys und Cocktailstunden gehütete Kulisse wohlstandsbürgerlichen Lebensstils sind. Unterhalb dieser suburbanen Idylle indes finden sich zehn Ehepaare zu einem promiskuitiven Reigen zusammen, in dem nach unausgesprochenen Regeln ein Kult des Sexuellen zelebiert wird, der den Beteiligten Spiel, Trauma und Therapie, Hoffnung, Mittel der Rache, des Rausches und der Kommunikation gibt. Inmitten dieser toleranten, sexbewussten und sexkonsumierenden Clique stehen der junge Bauunternehmer Piet Hannema mit seiner Frau Angela, daneben das >>neue>Applesmiths>Rabbit-Reihe>Besse.…