The Complete Henry Bech: Introduction by Malcolm Bradbury (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics) - Hardcover

Updike, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375411763 ISBN 13: 9780375411762

Publisher: Everyman's Library, 2001

Synopsis

[ Complete Henry Bech Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics By ( Author ) Mar-2001 Hardcover

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Review:

"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

About this edition

• Publisher: Everyman's Library
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0375411763
• ISBN 13: 9780375411762
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 544