Memories Of The Ford Administration

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Summary: The greatest descriptions of male-female sex ever written
Review: When I was an adolescent, my book reading often amounted to little more than a search for the sex parts. This is a book which repays that habit a thousand fold. The parts about President Buchanan are also interesting, but they are humdrum besides Updike's incredibly accurate and moving descriptions of his adulterous sexual episodes. I think that sex has never been written about this way before or since, because they seem to recover, by attention to the tiniest details (the woman whose clear blue eyes became milky in response to penetration) the sense and smell of the actual event. If Proust had written about sexual intercourse, this is the way he would have written. In a lesser vein, the conceit for the book is humorous. Asked by his local historical association to recall memories of the Ford administration, the alleged narrator of this story recalls his adulteries. Not a belly laugh, but wry humor.