Bech at Bay - Brossura

Bech at Bay is brilliant"
--David Lodge, New York Review of Books

"A comic delight...the ultimate wasp has produced another wonderful piece of Jewish fiction. In this, his third go-round with soulful Manhattan literary lion Henry Bech, Updike gets under his character's skin as naturally as Sinatra inhabits the soul of a heartbroken guy at the bar at 3a.m."
--David Lehman, People

"I suspect you'll find it irresistible"        
--Alex Beam, Boston Globe

"If you're anything literary--writer, publisher, even critic, you'll love it. And if you're not, you'll love it too...Everything Bech-Updike has to say about the writing life is awful, hilarious and true"
--Caroline Angier, Wall Street Journal

"Updike unbound--at his most frolicsome & funniest"
--Kirkus Reviews

"Bech at Bay is wise and funny, charming & pointed"
--Joan Mellen, Baltimore Sun

"A mordantly comic look at the literary life"        
--Paul Gray, Time
From the Hardcover edition.

John Updike was born in 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania. 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, and since 1957 has lived in Massachusetts. He is the father of four children and the author of over forty books, including collections of short stories, poems, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the American Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.