Rich in Russia

In these two short stories, Updike’s brilliant observational acuity is matched by a light, comic touch. The writer Henry Bech travels to Europe on a hapless cultural exchange, first to Russia, where he struggles to spend his money when everything – from his meals to his bugged hotel room – is already paid for, and then to Rumania
This book includes Rich In Russia, Foreword, Bech in Rumania, Appendix A and Appendix B.