Buchanan Dying: A Play
A Play
- Editore:
RANDOM HOUSE
- EAN:
9780812984903
- ISBN:
0812984900
- Pagine:
- 229
- Formato:
- Paperback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
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Descrizione Buchanan Dying: A Play
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 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.
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