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Bech Is Back by John Updike (1998, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
ISBN-100449004538
ISBN-139780449004531
eBay Product ID (ePID)427527
Product Key Features
Book TitleBech Is Back
Number of Pages192 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1998
TopicPsychological, Sagas, General, Literary, Jewish
GenreFiction
AuthorJohn Updike
Book SeriesBech Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight6.1 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN98-096382
Dewey Edition21
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 Number2
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisIn 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 NumberPS3571.P4B44 1998
