Memories of the Ford administration : a novel
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Published
New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1992., New York : Knopf :, [1992].
Edition
First trade edition.
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 22 cm.
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Canon City Public Library - FICTION | F UPDIKE | On Shelf |
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Published
New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1992., New York : Knopf :, [1992].
Format
Book
Edition
First trade edition.
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 371).
Description
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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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Updike, J. (1992). Memories of the Ford administration: a novel (First trade edition.). Knopf : Distributed by Random House.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Updike, John. 1992. Memories of the Ford Administration: A Novel. Knopf : Distributed by Random House.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Updike, John. Memories of the Ford Administration: A Novel Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1992.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Updike, John. Memories of the Ford Administration: A Novel First trade edition., Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1992.
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