Memories of the Ford Administration - Hardcover

Updike, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679416811 ISBN 13: 9780679416814

Verlag: Hamish Hamilton, 1993

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Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 371 pages; Description: 371 p. ; 22 cm. Subjects: Ford, Gerald R. , 1913-2006 --Fiction --Buchanan, James, 1791-1868 --Presidents --United States --Politics and government --1974-1977.

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Reseña del editor:

Alfred Clayton, a history instructor at Wayward Junior College in New Hampshire, juxtaposes his memories and impressions of Gerald Ford's administration with pages from his unpublished biography of James Buchanan. 50,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo.

Nota de la solapa:

ng...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 CLUB
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
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• Verlag: Hamish Hamilton
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0679416811
• ISBN 13: 9780679416814
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 371