{"product_id":"memories-of-the-ford-administration-john-updike-9780449912119","title":"Memories of the Ford Administration","description":"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 \u003ci\u003eRetrospect\u003c\/i\u003e consists not only of reams of unbuttoned personal history but also of pages from an unpublished project of the time, a chronicle of the presidency of James Buchanan (1857-61).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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Updike\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0449912116\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780449912119\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Random House Trade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/27\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 5.50h x 8.20w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2001 pg. 1456","brand":"John Updike","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43919786344703,"sku":"9780449912119","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_f1ece248-55f9-4532-9ccd-ab0cf8229491.jpg?v=1680811902","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/memories-of-the-ford-administration-john-updike-9780449912119","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}