Memories of the Ford Administration
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Book
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ISBN 10
0679416811
ISBN 13
9780679416814
Category
Literature
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Publication Year
1992
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Pages
371
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"Stunning...Alf's life and times are light and funny; Buchanan's are dark and serious. Alternating between the two, Mr. Updike entertains and instructs...in gorgeous prose."THE WALL STREET JOURNALWhen junior college professor Alfred Clayton is asked to record his impressions of the Ford Administration, he recalls a turbulent piece of personal history as well. In a decade of sexual liberation, Clayton was facing a doomed marriage and the passionate beginnings of a futile affair with an unattainable Perfect Wife. But one memory begets another: Clayton's unfinished book on James Buchanan. In John Updike's fifteenth novel, he masterfully alternates between the two men, two lives, two American centuries--one Victorian, the other modern--shining an irreverent, witty, and sometimes caustic light on the contrasting views of social fictions and sexual politics....A MAIN SELECTION OF THE BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH CLUBA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKFrom the Paperback edition. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
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