Bech: A Book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
2012 Random House Trade Paperbacks Edition
Copyright © 1965, 1966, 1968, 1970 by John Updike
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Published in the United States by Random House Trade Paperbacks, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
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Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. in 1970.
Five of these stories first appeared in THE NEW YORKER: “The Bulgarian Poetess,” “Bech in Rumania,” “Bech Takes Pot Luck,” “Rich in Russia” (without appendices), and (in shorter form) “Bech Swings?”
eISBN: 978-0-679-64582-5
Cover design: Gabrielle Bordwin
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