# Bech Is Back

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- Book: [Bech Is Back](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-updike/bech-is-back) ([Bech Is Back.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-updike/bech-is-back.md))
- Authors: [John Updike](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-updike)
- Publisher: random_house_trade_paperbacks
- ISBN: 978-04-4900-453-1
- Pages: 192
- Published: 1998-08-25
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In this follow-up to Bech: A Book, Henry Bech, the priapic, peripatetic, and unproductive Jewish American novelist, returns with seven more chapters from his mock-heroic life. He turns fifty in a confusing...