Bech
Subtitle: A Book
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: August 25, 1998
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780449004524
First sentence: STUDENTS (not unlike yourselves) compelled to buy paperback copies of his novels-notably the first, Travel Light, though there has lately been some academic interest in his more surreal and "existential" and perhaps even "anarchist" second novel, Brother Pig-or encountering some easy from When the Saints in a shiny heavy anthology of mid-century literature costing $12.50, imagine that Henry Beck, like thousands less famous than he, is rich.