BECH AT BAY A QUASI-NOVEL by John Updike - 1998

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Alfred A. Knopf, 1998-10-13. Hardcover. Good. 88x20x140.

[ Edition: first ]. Good Condition. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ][ Ships Daily ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] Publisher: Knopf Pub Date: 10/13/1998 Binding: Hardcover Pages: 240

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Alfred A. Knopf. Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 037540368X . Ex-Library; 16 oz.; 241 pages; Good+ Ex library HC w/DJ feels unread library markings o/w very nice clean/tight condition. 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 Académie Française. Then, the reader finds him on trial in California and on a criminal rampage in a gothic… Read More

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