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Bech Is Back eBook

by John Updike
language: english
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group, June of 2012 ‧
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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.


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Bech Is Back

by John Updike

Property Description
ISBN: 9780679645818
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Release Date: June of 2012
Language: English
Format: eBook
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EAN: 9780679645818
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

John Updike

John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard University in 1954. He worked at The New Yorker in the 1950s, where he published poems, short stories, essays, and reviews. Updike lived in New England, the setting for most of his books, and in Massachusetts, where he died on January 27, 2009, from lung cancer. He had four children.
He was the author of an extensive body of work, encompassing novels, poetry collections, short stories, essays, and even literary criticism on some of the best contemporary writers.
Updike observed the everyday life around him and frequently led the reader to recognize and question preconceived ideas. From the beginning of his career, existential questions were at the heart of his work.

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