Basic Bech: Bech a Book, Bech is Back
Autor John Updikeen Limba Engleză Paperback – dec 1999
Henry Bech, the celebrated author ofTravel Light, has been scrutinized, canonized and vilified by reviewers, academics, critics and readers across the world. Suffering from temporary impotence and not-so-temporary writer's block, Bech finds renewed fame when he returns to his native America andThink Big, his all-time blockbuster, hits the shops . . .
In these classic novels by John Updike, we return to a character as compelling and timeless as Rabbit Angstrom: the inimitable Henry Bech. Famous for his writer's block, Bech is a Jew adrift in a world of Gentiles. As he roams from one adventure to the next, he views life with a blend of wonder and cynicism that will make you laugh with delight and wince in recognition.
Praise for John Updike:
'Our time's greatest man of letters - as brilliant a literary critic and essayist as he was a novelist and short-story writer. His death constitutes a loss to our literature that is immeasurable' Philip Roth
'Alert, funny, sensuous. Here is a writer who can do more or less as he likes' Martin Amis
'One of the most protean of American writers . . . For a writer whose prose can be so lush and hyper-charged, he has always been in contact with the material detritus of everyday life'The Times
'He was the ideal son of a platonic union between John Cheever and J.D. Salinger, with Nabokov attending the christening as fairy godfather' James Wood
John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954, and spent a year in Oxford, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. His novels, stories, and nonfiction collections have won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in January 2009.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780140290189
ISBN-10: 0140290184
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0140290184
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
John
Updike
was
born
in
1932
in
Shillington,
Pennsylvania.
He
is
the
author
of
over
fifty
books,
includingThe
Poorhouse
Fair;the
Rabbit
series
(Rabbit,
Run;Rabbit
Redux;Rabbit
Is
Rich;
Rabbit
At
Rest);Marry
Me;The
Witches
of
Eastwick,which
was
made
into
a
major
feature
film;Memories
of
the
Ford
Administration;
Brazil;
In
the
Beauty
of
the
Lilies;Toward
the
End
of
Time;Gertrude
and
Claudius;andSeek
My
Face.He
has
written
a
number
of
collections
of
short
stories,
includingThe
Afterlife
and
Other
StoriesandLicks
of
Love,
which
includes
a
final
Rabbit
story,Rabbit
Remembered.His
essays
and
criticism
first
appeared
in
publications
such
as
theNew
Yorkerand
theNew
York
Review
of
Books,
and
are
now
collected
into
numerous
volumes.Collected
Poems
1953-1993brings
together
almost
all
of
his
verse,
and
a
new
edition
of
hisSelected
Poemsis
forthcoming
from
Hamish
Hamilton.
His novels, stories, and non-fiction collections have won have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the American Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Award and the Howells Medal.
Updike graduated from Harvard College in 1954, and spent a year at Oxford's Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of staff at the New Yorker, and he lived in Massachusetts from 1957 until his death in January 2009.
His novels, stories, and non-fiction collections have won have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the American Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Award and the Howells Medal.
Updike graduated from Harvard College in 1954, and spent a year at Oxford's Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of staff at the New Yorker, and he lived in Massachusetts from 1957 until his death in January 2009.