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Name: Bech Is Back

Author: John Updike
Year: 1982
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Humor

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ISBNs:
9780449459348
9780449004531
0449459349
0449004538

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. From the Trade Paperback edition.

This book is part of the "Bech" series. Here are some other books from this series:

"Bech at Bay"
First published in 1998
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"Bech"
First published in 1970
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