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		Henry Bech is a fictional character created by American author John Updike. Bech first appeared in assorted short stories, stories which were later compiled in the books Bech: A Book (1970), Bech Is Back (1982), and Bech at Bay (1998). These books were all later collected in The Complete Henry Bech (2001),[1] which also included the short story His Oeuvre (2000).

Updike's Bech is considered an antihero, and Updike's alter-ego. While Updike generally concerns himself with WASP culture, is married, and is prolific, Bech is apathetically Jewish, a bachelor (later a husband and stepfather for a time, and finally a father in old age), and unprolific. In the introduction to his first collection, the eponymous author speculates he is modeled in part after many other famous writers, including Norman Mailer, Bernard Malamud, J.D. Salinger and Updike himself.


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	^ "John Updike: 1932-2009," San Francisco Chronicle online, Link





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Selected works of John Updike

	Rabbit novels	
	Rabbit, Run (1960)
	Rabbit Redux (1971)
	Rabbit Is Rich (1981)
	Rabbit at Rest (1990)
	Rabbit Remembered (2001)




	Eastwick books	
	The Witches of Eastwick (1984)
	The Widows of Eastwick (2008)




	Other novels	
	The Poorhouse Fair (1959)
	The Centaur (1963)
	Of the Farm (1965)
	Couples (1968)
	Marry Me: A Romance (1976)
	The Coup (1978)
	Roger's Version (1986)
	Memories of the Ford Administration (1992)
	Brazil (1994)
	In the Beauty of the Lilies (1996)
	Toward the End of Time (1997)
	Gertrude and Claudius (2000)
	Villages (2004)
	Terrorist (2006)




	Short story collections	
	The Same Door (1959)
	Pigeon Feathers (1962)
	Olinger Stories (1964)
	Too Far to Go (1979)
	Trust Me (1987)
	The Early Stories (2003)
	My Father's Tears (2009)




	Poetry collections	
	The Carpentered Hen (1958)
	Telephone Poles (1963)




	Settings and characters	
	Henry Bech
	Brewer




	Adaptations	
	Rabbit, Run
	Too Far to Go
	The Witches of Eastwick (film)
	The Witches of Eastwick (musical)
	Eastwick














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