Still, my fascination with Buchanan did not abate, nor was I able, as the Seventies set in, to move the novel forward through the constant pastiche and basic fakery of any fiction not fed by the springs of memory -- what Henry James calls {in a letter to Sarah Orne Jewett} the "fatal cheapness {and} mere escamotage" of the "'historic' novel.
( John Updike )
[ Memories of the Ford ]
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