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...Bech: A Book, Updike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction Best Sellers: Aug. 24, 1970 | 8/24/1970 | See Source »

...Bech: A Book, Updike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction Best Sellers: Aug. 17, 1970 | 8/17/1970 | See Source »

...Bech: A Book, Updike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Sellers: Aug. 3, 1970 | 8/3/1970 | See Source »

...dried-out writer, Bech loses some sustaining irony as he gets closer to home. In London, an aggressive young scholar browbeats Bech into explaining his work. A rich young cutie looks up from her pillow and smugly suggests that he "learn to replace ardor with art." Back home, a former student gives him pot and he vomits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lion That Squeaked | 6/22/1970 | See Source »

...Bech is never really pathetic. He never loses sight of his ludicrous position. Somewhere behind the Iron Curtain. Bech observes that "shallowness can be a kind of honesty." It is a remark worthy of Oscar Wilde. It is unlikely, however, that Wilde-who never lost the knack of drawing life from the surface of things-would have fudged with "kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lion That Squeaked | 6/22/1970 | See Source »

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