The subject of adultery is seldom missing from Updike's twelve earlier novels. The success of Couples in 1968 was the occasion for Updike's first appearance on the cover of Time. Adultery and its consequences remain central in the series of novels from Rabbit, Run (1960) to Rabbit at Rest (1990), and the subject even receives a supernatural treatment in The Witches of Eastwick (1984). Updike has explored numerous points of view for adultery in his fiction, but lately, in The Witches of Eastwick and now more thoroughly in.....
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