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Laddar... The Complete Henry Bech (Everyman's Library) (urspr publ 2001; utgåvan 2006)av John Updike
VerksinformationThe Complete Henry Bech: Twenty Stories: Bech: A Book; Bech Is Back; Bech at Bay; His Oeuvre av John Updike (2001)
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. I picked this up years ago on a recommendation to help my writing skills. It helped some, but I wasn't impressed by the stories. ( ) This omnibus edition consists in three volumes of Bech stories — Bech: A Book, Bech is Back, and Bech at Bay — and one further short story, “His Oeuvre,” which rounds out the collection. Over more than thirty years of writing we see Updike’s verve, wit, empathy and angst. But mostly we see an incredible consistency. From the first story, “Rich in Russia,” to the last, Updike’s alter ego, Henry Bech is struggling with what it is for him to be a writer, to be a non-practicing Jew, to be American, and most importantly, to be a man. It is natural to assume that the best of Bech would be found in the first Bech book when his character is still fresh and Updike is turning him about to show off his angles. And that might be true. But the later stories are perhaps more welcome for the reader given our now familiarity with Bech and his predictable trait of surprising us. There is pathos aplenty in Bech’s elevation to The Forty, an elite group of artists. But there is also disappointment as Bech struggles with his responsibilities as a writer and, briefly, as a husband and step-father in “Bech Wed.” The breakdown of that relationship coinciding with Bech finally achieving best-seller status speaks to the delicate balances of influences and desires that Updike has realized through Bech. Each of these stories is a pleasant read and most have passages that will make you laugh and others that will make you think and some that will get you to do both at once. Easily recommended. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
"Since tales of his exploits began appearing in The New Yorker more than thirty years ago, Henry Bech, John Updike's playfully irreverent alter ego, has charmed readers with his aesthetic dithering and his seemingly inexhaustible libido. The Bech stories - here collected in one volume for the first time, and featuring a final, series-capping story, "His Oeuvre"--Cast an affectionate eye on the famously unproductive Jewish-American writer, offering up a stream of wit, whimsy, and lyric pungency unmatched in American letters." "From his birth in 1923 to his belated paternity and public apotheosis as a spry septuagenarian in 1999, Bech plugs away, globetrotting in the company of foreign dignitaries one day and schlepping in tattered tweeds on the college lecture circuit the next. By turns cynical and naive, wry and avuncular, and always amorous, he is Updike's most endearing confection - a Lothario, a curmudgeon, and a winsome literary icon all in one. A perfect forum for Updike's limber prose, The Complete Henry Bech is an arch portrait of the literary life in America from an incomparable American writer."--Jacket. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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