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Author Updike, John.

Title Bech at bay : a quasi-novel / John Updike.

Publication Info. New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1998.

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 Moore Stacks  PS3571.P4 B43 1998b    Available  ---
Edition 1st ed.
Description 240 pages ; 21 cm
Contents Bech in Czech -- Bech presides -- Bech pleads guilty -- Bech noir -- Bech and the bounty of Sweden.
Summary A collection of stories satirizing the American literary scene. All feature Henry Bech, an obscure Jewish writer who is awarded the Nobel Prize. In Bech in Czech, he visits Czechoslovakia and discovers the ghosts of East European Jewry.
Subject Bech, Henry (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Bech, Henry (Fictitious character)
Genre/Form Fiction.
Subject Jewish authors -- Fiction.
Jewish authors.
Jewish men -- Fiction.
Jewish men.
Novelists -- Fiction.
Novelists.
Genre/Form Black humor.
Black humor.
Humorous fiction.
Humorous fiction.
Jewish fiction.
Subject Bech, Henry -- Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Juifs -- États-Unis -- Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Nouvellistes américains -- Romans, nouvelles, etc.
ISBN 037540368X