Bech by John Updike
The Jewish American novelist Henry Bech--procrastinating, libidinous, and tart-tongued, his reputation growing while his powers decline--made his first appearance in 1965, in John Updike's The Bulgarian Poetess. That story won the O. Henry First Prize, and it and the six Bech adventures that followed make up this collection. Bech is the writer in me, Updike once said, creaking but lusty, battered but undiscourageable, fed on the blood of ink and the bread of white paper. As he trots the globe, promotes himself, and lurches from one woman's bed to another's, Bech views life with a blend of wonder and cynicism that will make followers of the lit-biz smile with delight and wince in recognition.
JOHN UPDIKE was the author of more than sixty books, eight of them collections of poetry. His novels, including The Centaur, Rabbit Is Rich, and Rabbit at Rest, won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in January 2009. CHRISTOPHER CARDUFF is a member of the staff of The Library of America and the editor of John Updike's posthumous volumes Higher Gossip, Always Looking, and The Collected Stories. He lives in Melrose, Massachusetts. BRAD LEITHAUSER is the author of sixteen books, the most recent of which is The Oldest Word for Dawn: New and Selected Poems. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and Iceland's Order of the Falcon, he is a professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and divides his time between Baltimore, Maryland, and Amherst, Massachusetts.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780233962702 |
| ISBN 10 | 0233962700 |
| Titel | Bech |
| Autor | John Updike |
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| Bindungsart | Hardback |
| Verlag | HarperCollins Distribution Services |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 1970-10-12 |
| Seitenanzahl | 244 |
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