Bech Is Back
192 pages
|Published: 1 Jan 1982
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ISBN: 9780449004531
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Publication date: 25 August 1998
Description
In this follow-up to 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.
