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Джон Апдайк – писатель, в мировой литературе XX века поистине уникальный, по той простой причине, что творчество его НИКОГДА не укладывалось НИ В КАКИЕ стилистические рамки. Легенда и миф становятся в произведениях Апдайка реальностью; реализм, граничащий с натурализмом, обращается в причудливую сказку; постмодернизм этого автора прост и естественен для восприятия, а легкость его пера – парадоксально многогранна...

Это – любовь. Это – ненависть. Это – любовь-ненависть.

Это – самое, пожалуй, жесткое произведение Джона Апдайка, сравнимое по степени безжалостной психологической обнаженности лишь с ранним его “Кролик, беги”. Это – не книга даже, а поистине тончайшее исследование человеческой души...

Of the Farm recounts Joey Robinson's visit to the farm where he grew up and where his mother now lives alone. Accompanied by his newly acquired second wife, Peggy, and an eleven-year-old stepson, Joey spends three days reassessing and evaluating the course his life has run. But for Joey and Peggy, the delicate balance of love and sex is threatened by a dangerous new awareness.

When historian Alfred “Alf” Clayton is invited by an academic journal to record his impressions of the Gerald R. Ford Administration (1974–77), he recalls not the political events of the time but rather a turbulent period of his own sexual past. Alf’s highly idiosyncratic contribution to Retrospect consists not only of reams of unbuttoned personal history but also of pages from an unpublished project of the time, a chronicle of the presidency of James Buchanan (1857–61). The alternating texts mirror each other and tell a story in counterpoint, a frequently hilarious comedy of manners contrasting the erotic etiquette and social dictions of antebellum Washington with those of late-twentieth-century southern New Hampshire. Alf’s style is Nabokovian. His obsessions are vintage Updike. Memories of the Ford Administration is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.