Bech is Back by John Updike

Bech is Back by John Updike is a 195-page hardcover published in 1982 by Alfred A. Knopf and is a stated first edition.  There is some color change along the dust jacket and a crease along the inside flap.  Inside, the cloth-bound hardcover is in very good original condition..  Book Summary Last heard from in Bech:  A Book (1970), Henry Bech, the peripatetic and unproductive Jewish American writer, here returns with seven new chapters from his life. In the opening stories, he suffers a variety of authorial illuminations and roams a number of third-world countries as a cultural ambassador. He turns fifty in a confusing blend of civic and erotic circumstances while publicizing himself in Australia and Canada. He marries, and travels with his Episcopalian bride to Israel, where she falls in love with the land, and to Scotland, where he does. And--mirabile dictu--Bech writes a book.  The problems of Illusion of reality, of fame and art, and of fidelity to oneself and others are all illumi