Супружеские пары by John Updike

A frank, incisive portrait of a group of suburban couples in the 1960s whose interlocking affairs, ambitions and disappointments expose the sexual restlessness and moral confusion beneath bourgeois respectability; through vivid, often ironic vignettes the novel traces shifting alliances, betrayals and the slow unraveling of marriages as desire, jealousy and vanity reshape friendships and community life, offering an unflinching meditation on loneliness, changing social mores and the personal costs of pursuing pleasure rendered with intimate psychological insight and precise prose.