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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10037540368X
ISBN-139780375403682
eBay Product ID (ePID)12038297791
Product Key Features
Book TitleBech at Bay : a Quasi-Novel
Number of Pages240 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1998
TopicGeneral, Literary, Jewish, Humorous / General
GenreFiction
AuthorJohn Updike
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight13.4 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN98-027868
Dewey Edition21
ReviewsBech at Bayis brilliant" --David Lodge,New York Review of Books "A comic delight...the ultimate wasp has produced another wonderful piece of Jewish fiction. In this, his third go-round with soulful Manhattan literary lion Henry Bech, Updike gets under his character's skin as naturally as Sinatra inhabits the soul of a heartbroken guy at the bar at 3a.m." --David Lehman,People "I suspect you'll find it irresistible" --Alex Beam,Boston Globe "If you're anything literary--writer, publisher, even critic, you'll love it. And if you're not, you'll love it too...Everything Bech-Updike has to say about the writing life is awful, hilarious and true" --Caroline Angier,Wall Street Journal "Updike unbound--at his most frolicsome & funniest" --Kirkus Reviews "Bech at Bayis wise and funny, charming & pointed" --Joan Mellen,Baltimore Sun "A mordantly comic look at the literary life" --Paul Gray,Time
Dewey Decimal813.5/4
SynopsisHenry Bech, the moderately well known Jewish-American writer who served as the hero of John Updike's previousBech: A Book(1970) andBech 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 Henry Bech in the post-Gutenbergian world, but somebody has to do it, and he brings to the task an indomitable mixture of grit and ennui.
LC Classification NumberPS3571.P4B43 1998b
