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The complete Henry Bech : twenty stories ; Beck: a book ; Bech is back ; Bach at bay ; His oeuvre / John Updike ; with an introduction by Malcolm Bradbury.

The complete Henry Bech : twenty stories ; Beck: a book ; Bech is back ; Bach at bay ; His oeuvre / John Updike ; with an introduction by Malcolm Bradbury.
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ISBN 9781857152647 (paperback)
Classification F UPDI
Personal Name Updike, John
Title The complete Henry Bech : twenty stories ; Beck: a book ; Bech is back ; Bach at bay ; His oeuvre / John Updike ; with an introduction by Malcolm Bradbury.
Portion of title The complete Henry Bech : twenty stories
20 stories
Production & Copyright Details New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2001]
©2001
Physical Description xxxi, 509 pages ; 22 cm.
Content type text
Series Everyman's library 264
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Note 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. 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.
Subject-Personal Name Bech, Henry(Fictitious character)Fiction
Subject - Topical Term Humorous stories, American
Jewish authors -- Fiction
Jewish fiction
Subject - Genre Short stories
Added Entry - Personal Name Bradbury, Malcolm, 1932-2000 writer of introduction.
Updike, John Bech.
Updike, John Bech is back.
Updike, John Bech at bay.
Updike, John His oeuvre.
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