Bech at Bay - Hardcover

Updike, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 037540368X ISBN 13: 9780375403682

Verlag: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 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. 75,000 first printing. BOMC. Tour.

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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 nubile sidekick called Robin. Lastly, our septuagenarian veteran of the literary wars is rewarded with a coveted medal, stunning him into a well-deserved silence. It's not easy being Hen

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• Verlag: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 037540368X
• ISBN 13: 9780375403682
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240