Bech at Bay
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. First Book Club(?) Edition. Hardcover. "Henry Bech, the moderately well known Jewish-American writer who served as the hero of John Updike's previous Bech: A Book (1970) and Bech is Back (1982), has become older but scarcely wiser. In these five new chapters from his life, he is still at bay, pursued by the hounds of desire and anxiety, of unbridled criticism and publicity..... More
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