New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - Updike's fifteenth novel, one which alternates between two men - Presidents James Buchanan and Gerald Ford - "two lives, two American centuries - one Victorian, the other modern - shining an irreverent, witty, and sometimes caustic light on the contrasting views of social fictions and sexual politics." Brief bibliography. 371 pp. ISBN: 0-679416811.