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Henry Bech, the celebrated author of Travel Light, has been scrutinized, canonized and vilified by critics and readers across the world. Here, the experiences of this bemused literary icon, one of Updike's greatest creations, are described in hilarious detail, as he travels the world struggling to break his writer's block; returns to his native America to find new success with Think Big, his all-time blockbuster; and visits communist Czechoslovakia, where he is greeted by a dizzyingly adoring public. Brilliantly comic and deeply poignant, The Complete Henry Bech is one of the greatest of all explorations of the writing life and of what happens when an writer becomes a literary celebrity.

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"A deft poke at what it means to be a writer in America." --New York Times

"In his extraordinarily productive career, John Updike has given us a multitude of memorable characters, but none more lovable than the high-minded, mild-mannered, rather hapless writer Henry Bech." --Chicago Tribune

"One of Updike's best creations." --Life

"Bech is Updike's alter ego, a mouthpiece for Updike's often sarcastic, even caustic insight into writers and the writing life ... [His] style is never more jubilantly elaborate than in a Bech book, and his intelligence never more provocatively displayed." --Booklist

"As imaginative territory, literary Manhattan has proved irresistible to Updike the satirist, and he has done it full justice and then some in his volumes of stories concerning the doings of New York novelist Henry Bech." --The New Criterion

"A mordantly comic look at literary life." --TIME
From the Publisher:
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.
"One of Updike’s best creations." —Life

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  • PublisherPenguin Classics
  • Publication date2006
  • ISBN 10 0141188561
  • ISBN 13 9780141188560
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages352
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