The Complete Henry Bech: Introduction by Malcolm Bradbury
John Updike$21.25
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From a master of American letters and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series comes his charming Henry Bech stories--collected in one volume for the first time, and featuring a final, series-capping story.
Since tales of his exploits began appearing in The New Yorker more than thirty years ago, Henry Bech, John Updike's playfully irreverent alter-ego, has charmed readers with his aesthetic dithering and his seemingly inexhaustible libido. From his birth in 1923 to his belated paternity and public apotheosis as a spry septuagenarian in 1999, Bech plugs away, globetrotting in the company of foreign dignitaries one day and schlepping in tattered tweeds on the college lecture circuit the next. By turns cynical and naïve, wry and avuncular, and always amorous, he is Updike's most endearing confection--a Lothario, a curmudgeon, and a winsome literary icon all in one. A perfect forum for Updike's limber prose, The Complete Henry Bech is an arch portrait of the literary life in America from an incomparable American writer.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: 03/27/2001
ISBN: 9780375411762
Pages: 544
Weight: 1.24lbs
Size: 8.32h x 5.32w x 1.23d
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2001 pg. 144
Publishers Weekly 02/26/2001 pg. 61
Since tales of his exploits began appearing in The New Yorker more than thirty years ago, Henry Bech, John Updike's playfully irreverent alter-ego, has charmed readers with his aesthetic dithering and his seemingly inexhaustible libido. From his birth in 1923 to his belated paternity and public apotheosis as a spry septuagenarian in 1999, Bech plugs away, globetrotting in the company of foreign dignitaries one day and schlepping in tattered tweeds on the college lecture circuit the next. By turns cynical and naïve, wry and avuncular, and always amorous, he is Updike's most endearing confection--a Lothario, a curmudgeon, and a winsome literary icon all in one. A perfect forum for Updike's limber prose, The Complete Henry Bech is an arch portrait of the literary life in America from an incomparable American writer.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: 03/27/2001
ISBN: 9780375411762
Pages: 544
Weight: 1.24lbs
Size: 8.32h x 5.32w x 1.23d
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2001 pg. 144
Publishers Weekly 02/26/2001 pg. 61