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Synopsis
Septuagenarian Jewish-American writer Henry Bech confronts new challenges in his life, in a trio of novels--Bech: A Book, Bech Is Back, and Bech at Bay--that follow him from the Manhattan literary world to Nobel laureate. Books available.
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About the Author
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 <i>The New Yorker,</i> 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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/ 6 hours<br>Read by Ron Rifkin<br><br>Catch up with Bech.<br><br>This unique AudioBook collects John Updikes classic Bech novels, <b>Bech: A Book</b> (1970), <b>Bech is Back</b> (1982), and the latest installment, <b>Bech at Bay</b><b>.<br><br>"Mr. Updike finds full scope for his gifts here: for sly and cheerfully malicious pensees on contemporary life; for busy observations on human behavior."<br>-</b><b><i>The New Yorker</i></b><b><br><br><br>Bech a Book (1970): This is where we meet him for the first time - Henry Beck, a New York writer "with his thinning curly hair and melancholy Jewish nose," whose first novel had become a minor classic. A rich and unforgettable portrait and a satire of the literary life.<br><br>Bech Is Back (1982): When Bech comes back, he roams a number of third-world countries as a cultural ambassador - astonished at his won literary celebrity. Fr
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