Bech Is Back - Couverture souple

Updike, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0449202771 ISBN 13 : 9780449202777

Editeur : Fawcett, 1983

Synopsis

Book by Updike John

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

“Bech is back all right, but only after paying a large and painful price. . . . Updike reflects in these pages on the odd and unsettling ways in which art can impinge upon life, the ways in which a book acquires a life of its own that seems wholly unrelated to that of the person who created it, the ways in which celebrity separates those upon whom it is bestowed from reality.”—The Washington Post
 
“Mr. Updike finds full scope for his gifts here: for sly and cheerfully malicious pensées on contemporary literary life; for busy observations on human behavior.”—The New Yorker
 
“[Updike] at the top of his craft.”—Time

Présentation de l'éditeur

In this follow-up to Bech: A Book, Henry Bech, the priapic, peripatetic, and unproductive Jewish American novelist, returns with seven more chapters from his mock-heroic life. He turns fifty in a confusing blend of civic and erotic circumstances while publicizing himself in Australia and Canada. He marries a shiksa and travels with her to Israel, where she falls in love with the land, and to Scotland, where he does. And—sweating buckets! thinking big! minting miracles! —he writes an ingeniously tawdry bestseller. Bech’s aesthetic and moral embarrassments reveal acid truths about both his trade and our times.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fawcett
• Date d'édition: 1983
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0449202771
• ISBN 13: 9780449202777
• Reliure: Poche
• Nombre de pages: 195
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible