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 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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Hardback Editions
August 1995 : Hardback
| Title: Memories of the Ford Administration Author(s): John Updike ISBN: 0-517-15492-7 / 978-0-517-15492-2 (USA edition) Publisher: Random House Value Publishing Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
April 1994 : Hardback
| Title: Memories of the Ford Administration Author(s): John Updike ISBN: 0-517-11661-8 / 978-0-517-11661-6 (USA edition) Publisher: Random House Value Publishing Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
March 1993 : Hardback
| Title: Memories of the Ford Administration: A Novel Author(s): John Updike ISBN: 0-241-13386-6 / 978-0-241-13386-6 (UK edition) Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Ltd Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
October 1992 : Hardback
| Title: Memories of the Ford Administration Author(s): John Updike ISBN: 0-679-41681-1 / 978-0-679-41681-4 (USA edition) Publisher: Knopf Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
February 2007 : Paperback
| Title: Memories of the Ford Administration (Penguin Modern Classics) Author(s): John Updike ISBN: 0-14-118899-5 / 978-0-14-118899-7 (UK edition) Publisher: Penguin Classics Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 2000 : Paperback
| Title: Memories of the Ford Administration Author(s): John Updike Publisher: Penguin No date c. Availability: Amazon More details... |
August 1996 : Paperback
| Title: Memories of the Ford Administration Author(s): John Updike ISBN: 0-449-91211-6 / 978-0-449-91211-9 (USA edition) Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
July 1994 : Paperback
| Title: Memories of the Ford Administration Author(s): John Updike ISBN: 0-449-22283-7 / 978-0-449-22283-6 (USA edition) Publisher: Fawcett Books Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
March 1994 : Paperback
| Title: Memories of the Ford Administration Author(s): John Updike ISBN: 0-14-017858-9 / 978-0-14-017858-6 (UK edition) Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
October 1993 : Paperback
| Title: Memories of the Ford Administration Author(s): John Updike ISBN: 0-14-017875-9 / 978-0-14-017875-3 (UK edition) Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
October 1993 : Mass Market Paperback
| Title: Memories of the Ford Administration Author(s): John Updike ISBN: 0-449-22188-1 / 978-0-449-22188-4 (USA edition) Publisher: Fawcett Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 1992 : Paperback
| Title: MEMORIES OF THE FORD ADMINISTRATION Author(s): John Updike Publisher: Fawcett Crest Availability: Amazon More details... |
Audio Editions
July 1993 : Audio Cassette
| Title: Memories Of The Ford Administration Author(s): John Updike ISBN: 0-7366-2481-3 / 978-0-7366-2481-7 (USA edition) Publisher: Books on Tape, Inc. Availability: Amazon Amazon CA More details... |
Other Editions
September 2012 : Kindle edition
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February 2007 : Kindle edition
| Title: Memories of the Ford Administration (Penguin Modern Classics) Author(s): John Updike Publisher: Penguin Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
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