“Is the gorgeous, fork-tongued, edgy English of Shakespeare and Gerard Manley Hopkins, of Charles Dickens and Saul Bellow becoming the binary code for a gray-suited empire directed by men walking along the streets of Manhattan and Hong Kong jabbering into cell phones?”
Updike’s final volume in his mock-heroic trilogy about Jewish American writer Henry Bech.
Author: John Updike
Title: Bech at Bay
Edition: First Trade Edition, first printing
Published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998
Physical Description: Hardcover; Octavo; 241p
Condition: Near fine copy in near fine dust jacket.
Comments: Crisp copy
