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The Spurious Freedom of the Ford Years |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Larry Woiwode |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1992 |
| Size: 4,257 Words, 25,183 Characters |
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MEMORIES OF THE FORD ADMINISTRATION
John Updike
New York: Knopf, 1992
384 pp., $23.00
In his sixtieth year, with his fifteenth novel, Memories of the Ford Administration, John Updike offers his faithful readership an omnibus volume that can be read as a summation and overview of his writing career. All of the themes and concerns of Updike's work, from Poorhouse Fair through Rabbit at Rest, are recapitulated in this timely novel with its title of imperial distance. Updike by now has his characters and materials so readily at hand [see the accompanying essay in the Currents in Modern Thought section, page 554] it's as if he's playing it fast and loose from a familiar deck, but you're never quite sure if he isn't dealing from the bottom.
Alfred Clayton, whose "memories" i...
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...nistration may not be the Best Updike Novel Yet, it is, in its own right, as good as any novel we'll get in a while. Alf and the members of his memories will be left, for the delectation of any reader of the future (perfect or not), with their legs and all the rest intact, while every factual history of this transitional era in American life will lie dead under the dust of modish datedness. vbcrlf
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