Memories of the Ford Administration by John Updike (1993, Paperback) 
Memories of the Ford Administration by John Updike (1993, Paperback)

 
Memories of the Ford Administration by John Updike (1993, Paperback)

Author: John Updike
Publisher: Creative Stress Mgmt
Publication Date: 1993-11-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0449221881
ISBN-13: 9780449221884
Product ID: EPID2210176
Description: In John Updike's 15th novel (published in 1996), Alfred Clayton, a history professor at a junior college, in the course of writing about the brief administration of President Ford, ponders his own personal history. While Ford was preside...
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Synopsis
In John Updike's 15th novel (published in 1996), Alfred Clayton, a history professor at a junior college, in the course of writing about the brief administration of President Ford, ponders his own personal history. While Ford was president, Alf's marriage was failing, and he was caught up in a doomed love affair. He was also writing a book on the presidency of James Buchanan. Updike shuttles between the worlds of Clayton and Buchanan in a novel that illuminates his views of American manners, morals, and politics.

Details
Publication Date:1993-11-01

Size
Length:352 pages
Height:6.8 in
Width:4.3 in
Thickness:0.8 in
Weight:6.4 oz

Publisher's Note
"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 JOURNAL When 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 BOOK

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