The Complete Henry Bech (Everyman's Library CLASSICS) - Hardcover

Updike, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1857152646 ISBN 13: 9781857152647

Verlag: Everyman, 2006

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Críticas:

"A deft poke at what it means to be a writer in America. " (New York Times)

"In his extraordinarily productive career, John Updike has given us a multitude of memorable characters, but none more lovable than the high-minded, mild-mannered, rather hapless writer Henry Bech." (Chicago Tribune)

"As imaginative territory, literary Manhattan has proved irresistible to Updike the satirist, and he has done it full justice and then some in his volumes of stories concerning the doings of New York novelist Henry Bech." (The New Criterion)

"A mordantly comic look at literary life." (Time)

Reseña del editor:

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 naïve, 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.

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• Verlag: Everyman
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1857152646
• ISBN 13: 9781857152647
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 552