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Seven new installments in the peripatetic life of the Jewish-American writer, Henry Bech, catch him in several aesthetic embarrassments as he travels to several third-world countries, turns fifty, marries, falls in love, and writes a best-selling book
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Bech is back all right, but only after paying a large and painful price. . . . Updike reflects in these pages on the odd and unsettling ways in which art can impinge upon life, the ways in which a book acquires a life of its own that seems wholly unrelated to that of the person who created it, the ways in which celebrity separates those upon whom it is bestowed from reality. "The Washington Post"
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Mr. Updike finds full scope for his gifts here: for sly and cheerfully malicious pensees on contemporary literary life; for busy observations on human behavior. " The New Yorker"
[Updike] at the top of his craft. "Time""
"Bech is back all right, but only after paying a large and painful price. . . . Updike reflects in these pages on the odd and unsettling ways in which art can impinge upon life, the ways in which a book acquires a life of its own that seems wholly unrelated to that of the person who created it, the ways in which celebrity separates those upon whom it is bestowed from reality."--The Washington Post
"Mr. Updike finds full scope for his gifts here: for sly and cheerfully malicious pensees on contemporary literary life; for busy observations on human behavior."--The New Yorker "[Updike] at the top of his craft."--Time
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Mr. Updike finds full scope for his gifts here: for sly and cheerfully malicious pensees on contemporary literary life; for busy observations on human behavior. " The New Yorker"
[Updike] at the top of his craft. "Time""
"Bech is back all right, but only after paying a large and painful price. . . . Updike reflects in these pages on the odd and unsettling ways in which art can impinge upon life, the ways in which a book acquires a life of its own that seems wholly unrelated to that of the person who created it, the ways in which celebrity separates those upon whom it is bestowed from reality."--The Washington Post
"Mr. Updike finds full scope for his gifts here: for sly and cheerfully malicious pensees on contemporary literary life; for busy observations on human behavior."--The New Yorker "[Updike] at the top of his craft."--Time
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.
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