Bech: A Book - Couverture rigide

Updike, John

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0233962700 ISBN 13 : 9780233962702

Editeur : HarperCollins Distribution Services, 1970

Synopsis

Physical description; vi, 206 p.; 21 cm. Notes; "Five of these [seven] stories first appeared in the New Yorker" --P. [iv]. Originally published, New York: Knopf, 1970. Subjects; Bech, Henry (Fictitious character) - Fiction. Jewish authors - Fiction. Jewish men - Fiction. Novelists - Fiction. Jewish men - United States - Fiction. Novelists, American - Fiction.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The Jewish American novelist Henry Bech—procrastinating, libidinous, and tart-tongued, his reputation growing while his powers decline—made his first appearance in 1965, in John Updike’s “The Bulgarian Poetess.” That story won the O. Henry First Prize, and it and the six Bech adventures that followed make up this collection. “Bech is the writer in me,” Updike once said, “creaking but lusty, battered but undiscourageable, fed on the blood of ink and the bread of white paper.” As he trots the globe, promotes himself, and lurches from one woman’s bed to another’s, Bech views life with a blend of wonder and cynicism that will make followers of the lit-biz smile with delight and wince in recognition.

Biographie de l'auteur

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: HarperCollins Distribution Services
• Date d'édition: 1970
• ISBN 10: 0233962700
• ISBN 13: 9780233962702
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 244