Memories of the Ford Administration by John Updike
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Book Summary Author: John Updike Edition: Paperback Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published) Published: 1996-08-27 ISBN: 0449912116 Number of pages: 384 Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks |
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Book Reviews of the Memories of the Ford Administration
Customer Review: Good, not Great
Summary: 4 Stars
Updike tries to incorporate his decades long research of James Buchanon into a storyline that has a professor recalling his life during the mid-70s. The graphic depiction of the sex overtakes the book in ways that are unsettling, but the emptiness of the protagonist's life at the end is undeniable. It would have been better if Updike has just written a history of Buchanon that echoed the "New Journalism," but then he would have been entering Tom Wolfe territory and that would have been a "no-no."
Still, Updike's middling efforts on a book like this is worth the time to sink in the classic prose and realize that this world is fallen and passing away.