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Bech Is Back by John Updike (English) Paperback Book
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- 9780449004531
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About this product
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
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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