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The Complete Henry Bech
John Updike
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Description for The Complete Henry Bech
Hardcover. From his birth in 1923 to his belated paternity and public apotheosis as a septuagenarian in 1999, Bech plugs away, globetrotting in the company of foreign dignitaries one day and schlepping in tattered tweeds on the college lecture circuit the next. This book presents a portrait of literary life in America from an incomparable American writer. Num Pages: 552 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 134 x 32. Weight in Grams: 594.
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 foreign dignitaries one day and schlepping in tattered tweeds on the college lecture circuit the next. By turns cynical and naïve, wry and avuncular, and always amorous, he is Updike's most endearing confection-a Lothario, a curmudgeon, and a winsome literary icon all in one. A perfect forum for Updike's limber prose, The Complete Henry Bech is an arch portrait of the literary life in America from an incomparable American writer.
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Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
552
Condition
New
Number of Pages
552
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857152647
SKU
V9781857152647
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About 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 has also written numerous short stories and ... Read more
Reviews for The Complete Henry Bech
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more