'The Complete Henry Bech' published by Penguin - and more on that later - contains two novellas and a short story. Bech: A Book is primarily concerned with Bech's adventures around the world, which essentially gives Updike an excuse to mention that countries major writers and to make allusions to them throughout the text/5(18). · By (author) John Updike. Share. Also available in. Hardback US$ Henry Bech, the celebrated author of Travel Light, has been scrutinized, canonized and vilified by critics and readers across the world. Here, the experiences of this bemused literary icon, one of Updike's greatest creations, are described in hilarious detail, as he travels. By turns cynical and naïve, wry and avuncular, and always amorous, he is Updike's most endearing confection--a Lothario, a curmudgeon, and a winsome literary icon all in one. A perfect forum for Updike's limber prose, The Complete Henry Bech is an arch portrait of the literary life in America from an incomparable American writer. Review Quotes.
The Complete Henry Bech (Penguin Modern Classics) - Kindle edition by Updike, John. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Complete Henry Bech (Penguin Modern Classics). Since tales of his exploits began appearing in The New Yorker. more than thirty years ago, Henry Bech, John Updike's playfully irreverent alter-ego, has charmed readers with his aesthetic dithering and his seemingly inexhaustible libido.. The Bech stories—collected in one volume for the first time, and featuring a final, series-capping story, "His Oeuvre"—cast an affectionate eye on the. The sheer length of time Updike spent writing about Bech—Bech: A Book () was followed by Bech Is Back () and Bech at Bay ()—means that he occupied Updike's imagination for as.
The Complete Henry Bech. Henry Bech, the celebrated author of Travel Light, has been. Since tales of his exploits began appearing in The New Yorker more than thirty years ago, Henry Bech, John Updike's playfully irreverent alter-ego, has charmed readers with his aesthetic dithering and his seemingly inexhaustible libido. The Bech stories—collected in one volume for the first time, and featuring a final, series-capping story, "His Oeuvre"—cast an affectionate eye on the famously unproductive Jewish-American writer, offering up a stream of wit, whimsy, and lyric pungency. () by John Updike: summary, analysis and commentary of the complete early and later stories, including the Maples and Henry Bech cycles, based mostly on the Library of America editions.
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