Bech: A Book
by Updike, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0233962700
- ISBN 13
- 9780233962702
- Seller
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Greenwood, Nova Scotia, Canada
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About This Item
London: Andre Deutsch, 1970. Henry Bech, a middle-aged American Jewish writer, goes through the motions of success. John Updike makes exuberant comedy of Bech's public life - his journey abroad to Russia and Bulgaria, his sortie into swing London, his response to a lecture-audience of nubile southern belles and finally his crowing with official laurels - while at the same time Bech's rising panic at the dislocation between what he appears to be and what he knows himself to be. An immaculate book in a price-intact illustrated dust jacket.. ISBN: 0-233-96270-0. First Edition, Second Impression. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Henry Bech Fictional Character. Catalogs: Literature.
Synopsis
John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker . His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal. In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Updike died in January 2009.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Gilt Edge Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B1745
- Title
- Bech: A Book
- Author
- Updike, John
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition, Second Impression
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0233962700
- ISBN 13
- 9780233962702
- Publisher
- Andre Deutsch
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1970
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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