Rich in Russia
Author(s): John Updike
'There, in Russia five years ago, when Cuba had been taken out of the oven to cool and Vietnam was still coming to a simmer, Bech did find a quality of life - impoverished yet ceremonial, shabby yet ornate, sentimental, embattled, and avuncular-reminiscent of his neglected Jewish past.' In these two short stories, Updike's brilliant observational acuity is matched by a light, comic touch. The writer Henry Bech travels to Europe on a hapless cultural exchange, first to Russia, where he struggles to spend his money when everything - from his meals to his bugged hotel room - is already paid for, and then to Rumania. This book includes "Rich In Russia", Foreword, Bech in Rumania, Appendix A and Appendix B.
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John (Hoyer) Updike (1932-2009) 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). They follow the life of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, a star athlete, from his youth through the social and sexual upheavals of the 1960s, to later periods of his life, and to final decline. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of the New Yorker, to which he has contributed poems, short stories, essays and reviews. Since 1957 he has lived in Massachusetts. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Howells Medal. Updike's oeuvre has been large, consisting of novels, collections of poems, short stories, and essays. He died in 2009.
General Fields
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- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : Penguin Classics
- : 0.066
- : 01 February 2011
- : 161mm X 111mm X 7mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 April 2011
- : books
Special Fields
- : John Updike
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 96
