Bech at Bay: 3 - Brossura

Updike, John

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ISBN 10: 044900404X ISBN 13: 9780449004043

Casa editrice: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 1999

Riassunto

Septuagenarian Jewish-American writer Henry Bech, the hero of Bech: A Book and Bech Is Back, confronts new challenges in his life, including a much-coveted Nobel Prize, an honor that stuns him. Reprint.

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Recensione:

“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

L'autore:

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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• Editore: Random House Trade Paperbacks
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 044900404X
• ISBN 13: 9780449004043
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256