Bech: A Book by Updike, John

Bech: A Book (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780449004524)

Vendor: John Updike
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Format: Paperback
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Bech: A Book by Updike, John

Bech: A Book

$16.00
Bech: A Book by Updike, John

Bech: A Book

$16.00
Format: Paperback
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The Jewish American novelist Henry Bech--procrastinating, libidinous, and tart-tongued, his reputation growing while his powers decline--made his first appearance in 1965, in John Updike's "The Bulgarian Poetess." That story won the O. Henry First Prize, and it and the six Bech adventures that followed make up this collection. "Bech is the writer in me," Updike once said, "creaking but lusty, battered but undiscourageable, fed on the blood of ink and the bread of white paper." As he trots the globe, promotes himself, and lurches from one woman's bed to another's, Bech views life with a blend of wonder and cynicism that will make followers of the lit-biz smile with delight and wince in recognition.

Author: John Updike
ISBN-10: 044900452X
ISBN-13: 9780449004524
Publisher: Random House Trade
Language: English
Published: 08/25/1998
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.21w x 0.52d

Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 02/13/2009 pg. 60
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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