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Henry Bech, the moderately well known Jewish-American writer who served as the hero of John Updike's previous Bech: A Book (1970) and Bech Is Back (1982), has become older but scarcely wiser. In these five new chapters from his life, he is still at bay, pursued by the hounds of desire and anxiety, of unbridled criticism and publicity in a literary world ever more cheerfully crass. He fights intimations of annihilation in still-Communist Czechoslovakia, while promiscuously consorting with dissidents, apparatchiks, and Midwestern Republicans. Next, he succumbs to the temptations of power by accepting the presidency of a quaint and cosseted honorary body patterned on the Academie Francaise. Then, the reader finds him on trial in California and on a criminal rampage in a gothic Gotham, abetted by a nubile sidekick called Robin. Lastly, our septuagenarian veteran of the literary wars is rewarded with a coveted medal, stunning him into a well-deserved silence.
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- Data di pubblicazione1999
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- ISBN 13 9780449005651
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Gut. Updike John Bech at Bay - A quasi-Novel TB - 11 x 18 cm - Verlag: Fawcett Crest, New York - 1999 - ISBN: 0449005658 - 237 Seiten - english Klappentext: Henry Bech, the moderately well known Jewish- American writer Who served as the hero of John Updike's previous Bech: A Book and Bech Is Back, has become older but scarcely wiser. In these five new chapters of his life, he is still at bay, pursued by the hounds of desire and anxiety, of unbridled criticism and publicity in a literary world ever more cheerfully crass. Still, our septuagenarian veteran of the literary wars is rewarded in the end With the coveted Nobel, stunning him into a well-deserved silence. It's not easy being Henry Bech in the post-Gutenbergian world, but somebody has got to do it, and he brings to the task that indomitable mixture of grit and ennui that only Updike could make so deliciously funny. Zustand: GUT! Einband mit ganz leichten Gebrauchsspuren, sonst innen sauber Size: 11 x 18 Cm. Buch. Codice articolo 035639
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