Bech Is Back
Updike John
In this follow-up to Bech: A Book, Henry Bech, the priapic, peripatetic, and unproductive Jewish American novelist, returns with seven more chapters from his mock-heroic life. He turns fifty in a confusing blend of civic and erotic circumstances while publicizing himself in Australia and Canada. He marries a shiksa and travels with her to Israel, where she falls in love with the land, and to Scotland, where he does. And--sweating buckets! thinking big! minting miracles!--he writes an ingeniously tawdry bestseller. Bech's aesthetic and moral embarrassments reveal acid truths about both his trade and our times.
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Year:
2012
Publisher:
Random House Publishing Group
Language:
english
ISBN 10:
0679645810
ISBN 13:
9780679645818
Series:
Bech 2
File:
EPUB, 1.88 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2012