Book description
Henry Bech, the celebrated author of Travel Light, has been
scrutinized, canonized and vilified by critics and readers across the
world. Here, the experiences of this bemused literary icon, one of
Updike?s greatest creations, are described in hilarious detail, as he
travels the world struggling to break his writer?s block; returns to his
native America to find new success with Think Big, his all-time
blockbuster; and visits communist Czechoslovakia, where he is greeted by
a dizzyingly adoring public. Brilliantly comic and deeply poignant, The
Complete Henry Bech is one of the greatest of all explorations of the
writing life and of what happens when an writer becomes a literary
celebrity. John (Hoyer) Updike (1932-) American novelist, short story
writer and poet, internationally known for his novels RABBIT, RUN
(1960), RABBIT REDUX (1971), RABBIT IS RICH (1981), and RABBIT AT REST
(1990). His latest novel is VILLAGES (Penguin, 2005)
