Buchanan Dying A Play |
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Author:
| Updike, John |
ISBN: | 978-0-8129-8490-3 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2013 |
Publisher: | Random House Publishing Group
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $32.99 |
Book Description:
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To the list of John Updike's well-intentioned protagonists-Rabbit Angstrom, Richard Maple, Henry Bech-add James Buchanan, the harried fifteenth president of the United States (1857-1861). In what the author calls "a kind of novel, conceived in the form of a play," Buchanan's political and private lives are represented as aspects of his spiritual life, whose crowning, condensing act is the act of dying. This definitive edition includes a Foreword by Updike, discussing early productions...
More DescriptionTo the list of John Updike's well-intentioned protagonists-Rabbit Angstrom, Richard Maple, Henry Bech-add James Buchanan, the harried fifteenth president of the United States (1857-1861). In what the author calls "a kind of novel, conceived in the form of a play," Buchanan's political and private lives are represented as aspects of his spiritual life, whose crowning, condensing act is the act of dying. This definitive edition includes a Foreword by Updike, discussing early productions of the work, the historical context in which it was written, and its kinship to his later novel Memories of the Ford Administration. A wide-ranging Afterword fleshes out this dramatic portrait of one of America's lesser known, and least appreciated, leaders.