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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 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....
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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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- PublisherKnopf
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0679416811
- ISBN 13 9780679416814
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages371
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