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Bech: A Book Paperback - 1998

by Updike, John

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Updike's most irresistible hero since Rabbit Angstrom is an author famous for his writer's block, a Jew adrift in a world of gentiles. As he roams from one adventure to the next, he view life with a blend of wonder and cynicism that will make readers laugh with delight and wince in recognition.

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  • Title Bech: A Book
  • Author Updike, John
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Ballantine B
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Random House Trade, Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.
  • Date August 25, 1998
  • Features Bibliography, Price on Product - Canadian
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 000045460
  • ISBN 9780449004524 / 044900452X
  • Weight 0.3 lbs (0.14 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.06 x 5.21 x 0.52 in (20.47 x 13.23 x 1.32 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
  • Library of Congress subjects Jewish fiction, Humorous stories
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98096381
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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From the publisher

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.

First line

STUDENTS (not unlike yourselves) compelled to buy paperback copies of his novels-notably the first, Travel Light, though there has lately been some academic interest in his more surreal and "existential" and perhaps even "anarchist" second novel, Brother Pig-or encountering some easy from When the Saints in a shiny heavy anthology of mid-century literature costing $12.50, imagine that Henry Beck, like thousands less famous than he, is rich.

From the jacket flap

In this classic novel by John Updike, we return to a character as compelling and timeless as Rabbit Angstrom: the inimitable Henry Bech. Famous for his writer's block, Bech is a Jew adrift in a world of Gentiles. As he roams from one adventure to the next, he views life with a blend of wonder and cynicism that will make you laugh with delight and wince in recognition.

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Media reviews

“[John] Updike’s most delightful book . . . Truly entertaining.”—Harper’s
 
“Updike has written his most appealing [work].”—The Boston Sunday Globe
 
Bech succeeds marvelously. . . . One falls into the book and through it and out the other side of it as effortlessly as one might slide through a polished aluminum table in a funhouse. . . . A deft poke at what it means to be a writer in America.”—The New York Times

Citations

  • Entertainment Weekly, 02/13/2009, Page 60

About the author

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.