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Bech Is Back - Paperback, by Updike John - Good

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Item specifics

Condition
Good: A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including ...
Type
Paperback
ISBN
9780449004531

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0449004538
ISBN-13
9780449004531
eBay Product ID (ePID)
427527

Product Key Features

Book Title
Bech Is Back
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1998
Topic
Psychological, Sagas, General, Literary, Jewish
Genre
Fiction
Author
John Updike
Book Series
Bech Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
6.1 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
98-096382
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"Bech is back all right, but only after paying a large and painful price. . . . Updike reflects in these pages on the odd and unsettling ways in which art can impinge upon life, the ways in which a book acquires a life of its own that seems wholly unrelated to that of the person who created it, the ways in which celebrity separates those upon whom it is bestowed from reality."-- The Washington Post   "Mr. Updike finds full scope for his gifts here: for sly and cheerfully malicious pensées on contemporary literary life; for busy observations on human behavior." --The New Yorker   "[Updike] at the top of his craft."-- Time, "Bech is back all right, but only after paying a large and painful price. . . . Updike reflects in these pages on the odd and unsettling ways in which art can impinge upon life, the ways in which a book acquires a life of its own that seems wholly unrelated to that of the person who created it, the ways in which celebrity separates those upon whom it is bestowed from reality."- The Washington Post   "Mr. Updike finds full scope for his gifts here: for sly and cheerfully malicious pensées on contemporary literary life; for busy observations on human behavior." -The New Yorker   "[Updike] at the top of his craft."- Time
Series Volume Number
2
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
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., 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.
LC Classification Number
PS3571.P4B44 1998

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