BECH IS BACK by John Updike

Three illuminations in the life of an American author; Bech Third-Worlds It; Australia and Canada; The Holy Land; Macbech; White on White

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Title: BECH IS BACK

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York

Publication Date: 1982

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Edition: 1st Edition Fine hardcover with dust jacket now protected in removable cover. After a number of years Pulitzer Prize winning novelist John Updike brings the peripatetic and unproductive Jewish-American writer Henry Beck back to relate seven new chapters of his life. In this he suffers a variety of authorial illuminations and roams a number of third-world countries as a cultural ambassador. Bech’s aesthetic embarrassments reveal truths about his trade and our times. Collector’s Item

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