BECH: A Book by John Updike

Rich in Russia; Bech in Rumania; The Bulgarian Poetess; Bech Takes Pot Luck; Bech Panics; Bech Swings?; Bech Enters Heaven

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Title: BECH: A Book

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York

Publication Date: 1970

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Edition: 1st Edition Fine hardcover in dust jacket now protected in removable cover. First edition of the Pulitzer Prize winning author’s novel in the famous Bech series. “This monotonous hero who embarks from an airplane, mouths words he doesn’t quite mean, has vaguely to do with some woman, and gets back on the airplane, is certainly one Henry Bech.no revolutionary has concerned himself with our oppression, with the silken mechanism whereby America reduces her writers to imbecility and cozenage” so wrote Henry Bech, the protagonist to his creator John Updike. Artwork and jacket illustrations by Arnold Roth. Collector’s Item.

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