The Complete Henry Bech: Introduction by Malcolm Bradbury - Rilegato

Updike, John

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ISBN 10: 0375411763 ISBN 13: 9780375411762

Casa editrice: Everyman's Library, 2001

Riassunto

A complete collection of Bech stories covers the entire career of this classic character, the author's literary alter ego, from his first appearance in The New Yorker thirty years ago to the present, and includes Bech: A Book, Bech Is Back, and Bech at Bay. 20,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

"A deft poke at what it means to be a writer in America." —New York Times

"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." —Chicago Tribune

"One of Updike’s best creations." —Life

"Bech is Updike’s alter ego, a mouthpiece for Updike’s often sarcastic, even caustic insight into writers and the writing life ... [His] style is never more jubilantly elaborate than in a Bech book, and his intelligence never more provocatively displayed." —Booklist

"As imaginative territory, literary Manhattan has proved irresistible to Updike the satirist, and he has done it full justice and then some in his volumes of stories concerning the doings of New York novelist Henry Bech." —The New Criterion

"A mordantly comic look at literary life." —TIME

L'autore:

John Updike was born in 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania. 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. He was the author of more than fifty books, including collections of short stories, poems, essays, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize (twice), the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Award, and the Howells Medal. He died in 2009.

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• Editore: Everyman's Library
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0375411763
• ISBN 13: 9780375411762
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 544