| Buchanan Dying: A Play Contributor(s): Updike, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0812984900 ISBN-13: 9780812984903 Publisher: Random House Trade OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | American - General - Performing Arts | Theater - General - Biography & Autobiography | Presidents & Heads Of State |
| Dewey: 812.54 |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5.53" W x 8.23" (0.45 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |