{"product_id":"9780812984903","title":"Buchanan Dying","description":"Author: Updike, John\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780812984903\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: RANDOM HOUSE US\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 15 Apr 2013\u003cbr\u003ePages: 256 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppearing for the first time in trade paperback and using the definitive text, here is America's greatest 20th-century belletrist's only work for the stage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo 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 \u003ci\u003eMemories of the Ford Administration.\u003c\/i\u003e A wide-ranging Afterword fleshes out this dramatic portrait of one of America's lesser known, and least appreciated, leaders.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47919091613854,"sku":"ING-9780812984903","price":27.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780812984903.jpg?v=1782807423","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780812984903","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}