Bech Is Back
by Updike, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine in fine dust jacket. Dime-size discoloration, fep.
- ISBN 10
- 0394528069
- ISBN 13
- 9780394528069
- Seller
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Newport, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker . His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal. In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Updike died in January 2009.
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- Seller
- Hedgehog's Whimsey Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- Alibris.05460000122
- Title
- Bech Is Back
- Author
- Updike, John
- Illustrator
- Roth, Arnold (DJ cover illustration by).
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in fine dust jacket. Dime-size discoloration, fep.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- "...October 22, 1982, Second Printing before Publication&qu
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394528069
- ISBN 13
- 9780394528069
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf / Borzoi Books.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1982
- Keywords
- Travel|Essays
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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