Bech Is Back by Updike, John

Bech Is Back (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780449004531)

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Bech Is Back by Updike, John

Bech Is Back

$16.00
Bech Is Back by Updike, John

Bech Is Back

$16.00
Format: Paperback
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In this follow-up to Bech: A Book, Henry Bech, the priapic, peripatetic, and unproductive Jewish American novelist, returns with seven more chapters from his mock-heroic life. He turns fifty in a confusing blend of civic and erotic circumstances while publicizing himself in Australia and Canada. He marries a shiksa and travels with her to Israel, where she falls in love with the land, and to Scotland, where he does. And--sweating buckets thinking big minting miracles --he writes an ingeniously tawdry bestseller. Bech's aesthetic and moral embarrassments reveal acid truths about both his trade and our times.

Author: John Updike
ISBN-10: 0449004538
ISBN-13: 9780449004531
Publisher: Random House Trade
Language: English
Published: 08/25/1998
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.38lbs
Size: 7.97h x 5.15w x 0.55d
By John Updike
By John Updike
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John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal. In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Updike died in January 2009.

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