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Collected stories relate the adventures of an American writer as he tours Russia and other Communist-bloc nations
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[John] Updike s most delightful book . . . Truly entertaining. Harper s
Updike has written his most appealing [work]. The Boston Sunday Globe
Bech succeeds marvelously. . . . One falls into the book and through it and out the other side of it as effortlessly as one might slide through a polished aluminum table in a funhouse. . . . A deft poke at what it means to be a writer in America. The New York Times"
"[John] Updike's most delightful book . . . Truly entertaining."--Harper's "Updike has written his most appealing [work]."--The Boston Sunday Globe "Bech succeeds marvelously. . . . One falls into the book and through it and out the other side of it as effortlessly as one might slide through a polished aluminum table in a funhouse. . . . A deft poke at what it means to be a writer in America."--The New York Times
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Updike has written his most appealing [work]. The Boston Sunday Globe
Bech succeeds marvelously. . . . One falls into the book and through it and out the other side of it as effortlessly as one might slide through a polished aluminum table in a funhouse. . . . A deft poke at what it means to be a writer in America. The New York Times"
"[John] Updike's most delightful book . . . Truly entertaining."--Harper's "Updike has written his most appealing [work]."--The Boston Sunday Globe "Bech succeeds marvelously. . . . One falls into the book and through it and out the other side of it as effortlessly as one might slide through a polished aluminum table in a funhouse. . . . A deft poke at what it means to be a writer in America."--The New York Times
John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal. In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Updike died in January 2009.
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- PublisherRandom House Inc
- Publication date1980
- ISBN 10 0394745094
- ISBN 13 9780394745091
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