Bech at Bay (Random House Large Print) - Softcover

Updike, John

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ISBN 10: 0375704175 ISBN 13: 9780375704178

Verlag: Random House Large Print, 1998

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Book by Updike John

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Septuagenarian Jewish-American writer Henry Bech, the hero of Bech: A Book and Bech Is Back, confronts new challenges in his life, including a much-coveted Nobel Prize, an honor that stuns him. (General Fiction).

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Henry Bech, the moderately well known Jewish-American writer who served as the hero of John Updike's previous Bech: A Book (1970) and Bech Is Back (1982), has become older but scarcely wiser. In these five new chapters from his life, he is still at bay, pursued by the hounds of desire and anxiety, of unbridled criticism and publicity in a literary world ever more cheerfully crass. He fights intimations of annihilation in still-Communist Czechoslovakia, while promiscuously consorting with dissidents, apparatchiks, and Midwestern Republicans. Next, he succumbs to the temptations of power by accepting the presidency of a quaint and cosseted honorary body patterned on the Académie Française. Then, the reader finds him on trial in California and on a criminal rampage in a gothic Gotham, abetted by a nub

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• Verlag: Random House Large Print
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0375704175
• ISBN 13: 9780375704178
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 291