The Complete Henry Bech: Bech a Book; Bech is Back; Bech in Czech

Updike, John

ISBN 10: 0140170588 / ISBN 13: 9780140170580

Published by Penguin, 1993

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Complete Henry Bech: Bech a Book; Bech is Back; Bech in Czech
• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140170588
• ISBN 13: 9780140170580
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Henry Bech, the author of "Travel Light", has been scrutinized by reviewers, academics, critics and readers. Suffering from impotence and writer's block, Bech finds renewed fame when he returns to America and "Think Big", his blockbuster, hits the bookstalls. Bech returns in "Bech in Czech".

From the Inside Flap

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. 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.
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.