{"id":4070,"date":"2017-07-09T09:33:11","date_gmt":"2017-07-09T14:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=4070"},"modified":"2017-07-09T09:33:11","modified_gmt":"2017-07-09T14:33:11","slug":"of-course-updike-makes-a-list-of-books-about-adultery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2017\/07\/09\/of-course-updike-makes-a-list-of-books-about-adultery\/","title":{"rendered":"Of COURSE Updike makes a list of books about adultery"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Only 247 people voted for “The Best Books About Adultery” thus far, but those folks don’t seem to be familiar with John Updike’s Rabbit novels, none of which made the top 100. That includes two Pulitzer Prize winners\u2014Rabbit Is Rich<\/em>,\u00a0in which Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom engages in wife-swapping (but is maneuvered into getting a different woman from the one he was lusting after), and Rabbit at Rest<\/em>, in which he famously has sex with his daughter-in-law.<\/p>\n

But Updike’s 1968 novel\u00a0Couples<\/em><\/strong> made the list, clocking in at #8, no doubt helped by the notoriety the book initially generated when it put Updike on the cover of\u00a0Time\u00a0<\/em>magazine as the spokesperson for the “post-pill society.”<\/p>\n

Topping the list? Tama Janowitz’s\u00a0Peyton Amberg<\/em>, followed by\u00a0The Scarlet Letter\u00a0<\/em>(Nathaniel Hawthorne),\u00a0Jude the Obscure<\/em> (Thomas Hardy),\u00a0Madame Bovary\u00a0<\/em>(Gustave Flaubert),\u00a0Anna Karenina<\/em> (Leo Tolstoy),\u00a0A Child’s Book of True Crime<\/em> (Chloe Hooper), and\u00a0The Quickie<\/em> (James Patterson). Rounding out the Top 10 are\u00a0The Little Women\u00a0<\/em>(Katharine Weber) and\u00a0Lying\u00a0<\/em>(Wendy Perriam).<\/p>\n

Here’s the full Ranker list<\/a>, where you too can vote a book up or down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Only 247 people voted for “The Best Books About Adultery” thus far, but those folks don’t seem to be familiar with John Updike’s Rabbit novels, none of which made the top 100. That includes two Pulitzer Prize winners\u2014Rabbit Is Rich,\u00a0in … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4072,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4070\/revisions\/4072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}