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- Condition
- Book Title
- Bech at Bay
- Publication Name
- Bech at Bay
- Title
- Bech at Bay
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 044900404X
- EAN
- 9780449004043
- ISBN
- 9780449004043
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Genre
- Fiction
- Release Year
- 1999
- Release Date
- 05/10/1999
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.5in
- Item Length
- 8.2in
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 7.1 Oz
- Series
- Bech
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Topic
- Psychological, Sagas, Literary, Humorous / General, Jewish
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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In this, the final volume in John Updike's mock-heroic trilogy about the Jewish American writer Henry Bech, our hero is older but scarcely wiser. Now in his seventies, he remains competitive, lecherous, and self-absorbed, lost in a brave new literary world where his books are hyped by Swiss-owned conglomerates, showcased in chain stores attached to espresso bars, and returned to warehouses three weeks after publication. In five chapters more startling and surreal than any that have come before, Bech presides over the American literary scene, enacts bloody revenge on his critics, and wins the world's most coveted writing prize. It's not easy being Henry Bech in the post-Gutenbergian world, but somebody has to do it, and he brings to the task his signature mixture of grit, spit, and ennui.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
044900404x
ISBN-13
9780449004043
eBay Product ID (ePID)
23038291765
Product Key Features
Book Title
Bech at Bay
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Psychological, Sagas, Literary, Humorous / General, Jewish
Publication Year
1999
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
7.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
3
Lc Classification Number
Ps3571.P4b43 1999
Reviews
"Wickedly funny . . . a joy to read . . . 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 "Witty, acute, and surprisingly affecting . . . Updike at his most interesting and engaging . . . Like the other books about Henry Bech, this is modest in size but generous with its rewards."-- The Washington Post Book World " Bech at Bay is brilliant." --The New York Review of Books, "Wickedly funny . . . a joy to read . . . 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 "Witty, acute, and surprisingly affecting . . . Updike at his most interesting and engaging . . . Like the other books about Henry Bech, this is modest in size but generous with its rewards."- The Washington Post Book World " Bech at Bay is brilliant." -The New York Review of Books, "Bech at Bay is brilliant." --The New York Review of Books "NEARLY EVERY PAGE OF THIS BOOK SPARKLES WITH LITTLE GEMS." --San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle "WICKEDLY FUNNY . . . A JOY TO READ . . . 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. . . . Updike writes so well--with such intelligence, such precision, such grace--one is exhilarated by the sheer sentence-by-sentence beauty of the prose." --Chicago Tribune "A WONDERFUL NOVEL, EVIL AND FUNNY, A BIG CITY BURLESQUE BRISTLING WITH THE ARTIFACTS OF MODERN URBAN CULTURE." --Detroit Free Press "IF YOU'RE ANYTHING LITERARY--WRITER, PUBLISHER, EVEN CRITIC-- YOU'LL LOVE IT. AND IF YOU'RE NOT, YOU'LL LOVE IT TOO. . . . Bech at Bay is about getting old, about life and literature passing Bech by, about the end of a simpler, better age--and every word of it is fresh, sharp, up-to-date." --The Wall Street Journal "A COMIC DELIGHT . . . WICKED SATIRE OF THE LITERARY WHIRL." --People "WITTY, ACUTE, AND SURPRISINGLY AFFECTING . . . UPDIKE AT HIS MOST INTERESTING AND ENGAGING . . . Like the other books about Henry Bech, this is modest in size but generous with its rewards." --The Washington Post Book World "IRRESISTIBLE." --The Boston Globe
Copyright Date
1999
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
99-090166
Dewey Decimal
813.5/4
Series
Bech Ser.
Dewey Edition
21
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