# Rich in Russia

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- Authors: [John Updike](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-updike)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2011-02-15

## Description

'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 .

## Editions

### Rich in Russia

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4197-123-0
- Published: 2011-02-15
- Language: en_GB