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Bech Is Back

✍ Scribed by Updike, John

Book ID: 109301331
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group; Knopf
Year: 1982
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 286 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780679645818

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✦ Synopsis

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.

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