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This is John Updike's third go-round with "the semi-obscure American author" Henry Bech. Bech at Bay (Knopf; 241 pages; $23) displays the same mordantly comic look at the literary life that enlivened Bech: A Book (1970) and Bech Is Back (1982). The five stories that make up this new installment of the saga show an older and grumpier Bech still worrying about his long bouts of writer's block and finding ways of getting away from his desk whenever he can. On a State Department-sponsored junket to communist Prague in the mid-1980s, Bech meets dissident...
Updike's latest novel, Toward the End of Time, was published in 1997. According to Sweeny, a new book, a "quasi-novel" titled Bech at Bay, will be released in October...
...book is comprised of four loosely related novellas all featuring the character "Bech...
Home: Cabot House and Vero Bech, Florida. Before that, Siberia...
...hard to tell at such moments whether Updike is parading knowledge or satirizing it. Roger's Version may be a novel that only the author's most faithful followers will love at first sight. Newcomers might be advised to start with Rabbit or Bech before tackling this dazzling and sometimes maddening display of talent and erudition: the labor of a serious artist to make comprehensible a mystery that cannot be explained...