and the book explores everything from the invention of silent reading
"--Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)
"Grand and dizzying in how thoroughly it recalibrates our understanding of the natural world
must happen
and the places we traverse
Couples and the book explores everything"Trapped in their cozy catacombs, the couples have made sex by turns their toy, their glue, their trauma, their therapy, their hope, their frustration, their revenge, their narcotic, their main line of communication and their sole and pitiable shield against the awareness of death." Time One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years One of the signature novels of the American 1960s, Couples is a book that, when it debuted,