Description: Bech: A Book, by John Updike. First American Edition, 1970. Hardcover. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fully Bound in Pumpkin Orange Cloth. Silver Lettering on Front Panel and Spine. Sprayed Yellow Top Edge. Jacket Illustration by Arnold Roth. 206 Pages. A Near-Fine Book with Straight Boards, a Tight Binding, and a Crisp, Clean Interior Free of Writing. Includes a Small Mark on the Bottom Edge of the Text Block, Otherwise Fine. Comes in a Near-Fine Unclipped Dust Jacket With Some Fading, now Protected in a Brodart Cover. Purchase Bech with its sequel, Bech is Back, also in our shop Along with Rabbit Angstrom and the Maple Family, the “unproductive Jewish-American writer” Henry Bech is doubtless one of Updike’s most memorable and charming creations. Bech—procrastinating, libidinous, and tart-tongued, his reputation growing while his powers decline—made his first appearance in 1965, in 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. A charming, hilarious book from the master stylist.
Price: 9.99 USD
Location: Southampton, Pennsylvania
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Shipping Cost: 5.49 USD
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Seller
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: New York, NY
Signed: No
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Year Printed: 1970
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
Illustrator: Arnold Roth
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket, Illustrated, First Printing, John Updike Stories, New Yorker, Stories About writers
Author: UPDIKE, John
Region: North America
Personalized: No
Topic: Writers
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Character Family: Bech
