The Women Who Got Away (Penguin Great Loves)

by John Updike

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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…

  • ISBN10 0141032936
  • ISBN13 9780141032931
  • Publish Date 2 August 2007
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 29 June 2021
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
  • Imprint Penguin Classics
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 112
  • Language English