The Complete Henry Bech: Introduction by Malcolm Bradbury Hardcover - 2001
by John Updike; Introduction by Malcolm Bradbury
Collected in one volume for the first time--and featuring a final, series-capping story, "His Oeuvre"--John Updike's Bech stories have been a fixture of the American literary imagination since they first began appearing in "The New Yorker" more than 30 years ago. Ribbon marker.
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Since tales of his exploits began appearing in "The New Yorker more than thirty years ago, Henry Bech, John Updike's playfully irreverent alter-ego, has charmed readers with his aesthetic dithering and his seemingly inexhaustible libido. The Bech stories--collected in one volume for the first time, and featuring a final, series-capping story, "His Oeuvre"--cast an affectionate eye on the famously unproductive Jewish-American writer, offering up a stream of wit, whimsy, and lyric pungency unmatched in American letters.
From his birth in 1923 to his belated paternity and public apotheosis as a spry septuagenarian in 1999, Bech plugs away, globetrotting in the company of foreign dignitaries one day and schlepping in tattered tweeds on the college lecture circuit the next. By turns cynical and naive, wry and avuncular, and always amorous, he is Updike's most endearing confection--a Lothario, a curmudgeon, and a winsome literary icon all in one. A perfect forum for Updike's limber prose, "The Complete Henry Bech is an arch portrait of the literary life in America from an incomparable American writer.
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- Title The Complete Henry Bech: Introduction by Malcolm Bradbury
- Author John Updike; Introduction by Malcolm Bradbury
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 544
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Everyman's Library, New York
- Date 2001-03-27
- Features Bookmark, Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780375411762 / 0375411763
- Weight 1.24 lbs (0.56 kg)
- Dimensions 8.32 x 5.32 x 1.23 in (21.13 x 13.51 x 3.12 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Jewish fiction, Humorous stories, American
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00053488
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Kirkus Reviews, 02/01/2001, Page 144
- Publishers Weekly, 02/26/2001, Page 61
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