Memories of the Ford Administration by Updike, John

Memories of the Ford Administration

When historian Alfred "Alf" Clayton is invited by an academic journal to record his impressions of the...
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Author: John Updike
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Language: English
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Memories of the Ford Administration by Updike, John

Memories of the Ford Administration

¥4,211

Memories of the Ford Administration

¥4,211
Author: John Updike
Format: Paperback
Language: English
When historian Alfred "Alf" Clayton is invited by an academic journal to record his impressions of the Gerald R. Ford Administration (1974-77), he recalls not the political events of the time but rather a turbulent period of his own sexual past. Alf's highly idiosyncratic contribution to Retrospect consists not only of reams of unbuttoned personal history but also of pages from an unpublished project of the time, a chronicle of the presidency of James Buchanan (1857-61). The alternating texts mirror each other and tell a story in counterpoint, a frequently hilarious comedy of manners contrasting the erotic etiquette and social dictions of antebellum Washington with those of late-twentieth-century southern New Hampshire. Alf's style is Nabokovian. His obsessions are vintage Updike.

Author: John Updike
Publisher: Random House Trade
Published: 08/27/1996
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 5.50h x 8.20w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780449912119


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 04/01/2001 pg. 1456

About the Author
John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal. In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Updike died in January 2009.


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