Bech at Bay: A Quasi-Novel.
by John Updike
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0449005658
- ISBN 13
- 9780449005651
- Seller
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Synopsis
John Updike was born in 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania. 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, and since 1957 has lived in Massachusetts. He is the father of four children and the author of over forty books, including collections of short stories, poems, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the American Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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- Seller
- Black Cat Hill Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 54525
- Title
- Bech at Bay: A Quasi-Novel.
- Author
- John Updike
- Format/Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Thus (1999); so stated. First Printing indicated b
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0449005658
- ISBN 13
- 9780449005651
- Publisher
- Fawcett: Crest,
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1999.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classic American Fiction; Fiction: Collectible Paperbacks; American Popular Fiction; Modern Fiction First Editions; Women's Fiction;
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