The Complete Henry Bech
By John Updike
Introduction by Malcolm Bradbury
By John Updike
Introduction by Malcolm Bradbury
Part of Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series
Category: Short Stories | Classic Fiction | Literary Fiction
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$25.00
Mar 27, 2001 | ISBN 9780375411762
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Praise
“A deft poke at what it means to be a writer in America.” —The 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
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