In the small town of Pierce Junction adultery is the popular pastime and pillow talk the common currency. Martin knows the women he hasn't yet seduced hold his attention for the longest, and Winifred, married to his own wife's lover, stirs him in ways he never expects. United by the theme of love, the writings in the "Great Loves" series span over two thousand years and vastly different worlds. Readers will be introduced to love's endlessly fascinating possibilities and extremities: romantic love, platonic love, erotic love, gay love, virginal love, adulterous love, parental love, filial love, nostalgic love, unrequited love, illicit love, not to mention lost love, twisted and obsessional love...
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Updike的五篇短篇,Natural Color, New Yorker Girl, Licks of Love in the Heart of the Cold War, the Woman Who Got Away, Transaction. 已婚男婚外邂逅风尘女,和她们的几段情,最后一篇《交易》,实则就是招妓,也难怪首投纽约客被拒,才转投花花公子。尤其喜欢第三个title.