A Rage to Live
by John O'Hara | 
An American Dream
by Norman Mailer | 
Running Dog
by Don DeLillo | 
Set This House on Fire
by William Styron | 
The Ultimate Good Luck
by Richard Ford | 
The Web and the Rock
by Thomas Wolfe | 
Lie Down in Darkness
by William Styron | 
Bech at Bay
by John Updike | 
10:04
by Ben Lerner | 
Mrs. Ted Bliss
by Stanley Elkin | 
Whores for Gloria
by William T. Vollmann | 
Sombrero Fallout
by Richard Brautigan | 
BUtterfield 8
by John O'Hara | 
The Tidewater Tales
by John Barth | 
1933 Was A Bad Year
by John Fante | 
Ten North Frederick
by John O'Hara | 
The Uncommon Reader
by Alan Bennett | 
Straight Man
by Richard Russo | 
Laugh-Out-Loud Jokes for Kids
by Rob Elliott | 
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
by Tom Robbins |
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 blend of civic and erotic circumstances while publicizing himself in Australia and Canada. He marries a shiksa and travels with her to Israel, where she falls in love with the land, and to Scotland, where he does. And'??sweating buckets! thinking big! minting miracles!'??he writes an ingeniously tawdry bestseller. Bech'??s aesthetic and moral embarrassments reveal acid truths about both his trade and our times. From the Trade Paperback edition.