The Complete Henry Bech
$60.79
- Hardcover
552 pages
- Release Date
15 October 2006
Summary
The Bech stories—collected in one volume for the first time, and featuring a final, series-capping story, “His Oeuvre”—cast an affectionate eye on the famously unproductive Jewish-American writer, offering up a stream of wit, whimsy, and lyric pungency unmatched in American letters.
“One of Updike’s best creations.” —Life
From his birth in 1923 to his belated paternity and public apotheosis as a spry septuagenarian in 1999, Bech plugs away, globetrotting in the company of fore…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781857152647 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1857152646 |
| Author: | John Updike |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 552 |
| Release Date: | 15 October 2006 |
| Weight: | 587g |
| Dimensions: | 211mm x 133mm x 30mm |
| Series: | Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics |
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A deft poke at what it means to be a writer in America.
A deft poke at what it means to be a writer in America. * New York Times *
In his extraordinarily productive career, John Updike has given us a multitude of memorable characters, but none more lovable than the high-minded, mild-mannered, rather hapless writer Henry Bech. * Chicago Tribune *
As imaginative territory, literary Manhattan has proved irresistible to Updike the satirist, and he has done it full justice and then some in his volumes of stories concerning the doings of New York novelist Henry Bech. * The New Criterion *
A mordantly comic look at literary life.
* Time *About The Author
John Updike
From Harvard to a staff position on The New Yorker, John Updike turned his brainy pedigree into a successful career as a novelist, essayist and critic. His novels Rabbit, Run (1960), Couples (1978) and Pulitzer winner Rabbit is Rich (1981) exemplify his sophisticated take on contemporary middle-class tragedy. Prolific as all get-out, Updike also wrote numerous short stories and poems, and in 1997 he engineered a group-written mystery story on the Internet.
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