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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."
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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....
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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
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"An Engrossingly Clever Novel About Sex And The Presidency." -- Nicholas Von Hoffman
"Quintessential Updike...[A] comic and melancholy reflection on politics and passion." -- The New York Times Book Review
"Compelling...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."
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- PublisherFawcett
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0449221881
- ISBN 13 9780449221884
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages352
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