Random House Inc. 10/01/1998. 240 pgs. In these five new episodes in the life of John Updike's perennial character, Henry Bech, now 70, is still a skirmisher in the literary world wars--this time literally, as in one story he hunts down and kills critics who have damned is books. Astonishingly, he is also the winner of the Nobel Prize--something which, so far, continues to elude his creator. This is Updike's third collection about his maddeningly lovable Jewish alter ego. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998. Originally published at $23.00 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 10/01/1998. 224 pgs. This is John Updike's original volume of stories about his alter ego, Henry Bech, who in many ways is as unlike Updike as it's possible to be (Jewish, short, unmarried, and a failure who suffers from writer's block). Updike, however, finds his way inside Bech's mind, and gives us a hero who is very real, zanily hilarious, and (despite everything) utterly lovable. Originally published at $12.95 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 10/01/1998. 292 pgs. In this collection of short stories continuing the fortunes of Updike's Henry Bech that were begun in BECH: A BOOK, it is 12 years later, and chronically blocked Bech has finally finished his novel, THINK BIG. To everyone's amazement, especially Bech's, the book becomes a best-seller. In addition, Bech has been married and is now divorced and, neurotic as ever, is completely freaked out by his publishing successes. Originally published at $12.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Henry Holt & Co. 09/01/1998. 150 pgs. Originally published at $35.00 You save 97% off the cover price!

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Northwestern Univ Pr. 05/01/2003. 256 pgs. In this novel, it's 1936, and Isaac Babel is asked by a mysterious man to help a treasonous associate named Lev Kamenev escape from Odessa. In exchange, Babel--who is in increasing trouble with the Communist authorities for his failure to follow the party line--will be given a passport to Paris, where his family awaits him in exile. THE KING OF ODESSA purports to be Babel's account of the incident, in which he must draw on his wits to survive. (In reality, Babel was executed in 1939.) Originally published at $24.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Univ Pr of New England. 09/01/1999. 307 pgs. Originally published at $40.00 You save 95% off the cover price!

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Consortium Book Sales & Dist. 01/01/2003. 320 pgs. Danny Silverman, a moderately outrageous gay novelist from San Francisco, is hired as a lecturer at an ultraconservative religious college in the Midwest. They are, of course, less than thrilled at his politics and his views of literature. When a snowstorm strands him at the school, the gay-bashing and general hatred intensify, and Danny tries to make his escape, facing not only the snowstorm of the century but a gang of Christian snowmobilers. Originally published at $15.95 You save 88% off the cover price!

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Northwestern Univ Pr. 04/01/1999. 261 pgs. Sukenick's fragmented, journal-like, autobiographical novel is about his Jewish background, his writing and that of others, and the spiritual impact of a visit to Jerusalem. Originally published at $14.95 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 01/01/2004. 220 pgs. German writer Walter Abish writes about his childhood in Vienna, as his Jewish family fled the Nazis for Singapore, and Abish learned to interpret the often confusing information he encountered. Abish alternates points of view, presenting himself as a child ("The Writer-to-be") and as his present self ("The Writer"), both past and present selves commenting on Germany then and Germany now. Originally published at $24.00 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 05/10/2005. 345 pgs. Originally published at $25.00 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Pub Group West. 10/05/2005. 268 pgs. Originally published at $14.95 You save 89% off the cover price!

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Unbridled Books. 05/30/2006. 309 pgs. Originally published at $25.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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