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The Journals of John Cheever by CHEEVER, JOHN
Category: Biography Memoir
John Cheever's journals reveal the inner life of this remarkable writer and the contradictions that drove him. He loved his wife and their children, but was acutely lonely; he loved women, but he also loved men; he hated himself for his drinking, but for much of his life was dependent upon it; he was a ...Show more
The Journals of John Cheever by Robert (EDT) John; Gottlieb Cheever
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Vintage International
In these journals, the experiences of one of the most renowned twentieth-century American writers come to life with fascinating, wholly revealing detail. John Cheever's journals provide peerless insights into the creation of his novels and stories. But they are equally the record of a complex, often dar ...Show more
The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
Category: Romance
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER * NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A seminal collection from one of the true masters of the short story. Spanning the duration of Cheever's long and distinguished career, these sixty-one stories chronicle and encapsulate the lives of what has been called "the greatest generation." From the e ...Show more
The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
Category: Short Stories | Series: Vintage International Ser.
This Pulitzer Prize-winning collection features 61 stories that chronicle the lives of what has been called "the greatest generation.""Profound and daring . . . some of the most wonderful stories any American has written."--"The Boston Globe."
The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever
Category: Fiction | Series: Perennial Classics Ser.
"In the novel that established his reputation as an unparalleled observer of the dialectic between compassion and decorum, John Cheever followed the destinies of the impecunious and wildly eccentric Wapshots of St. Botolphs, Massachusetts. There are the stories of Cap-tain Leander Wapshot, venerable sea ...Show more
The Wapshot Chronicle by CHEEVER JOHN
Category: Fiction
Meet the Wapshots of St Botolphs. There is Captain Leander Wapshot, venerable sea-dog and would-be suicide; his licentious older son, Moses; and Moses' adoring and errant younger brother, Coverly. Tragic and funny, ribald and splendidly picaresque, and partly based on Cheever's adolescence in New Englan ...Show more
The Wapshot Scandal by John Cheever
Category: Fiction
Once upon a time the Wapshots of St. Botolphs were distinguished for their unshakeable good opinion of themselves. But the family members have drifted far from their New England village - and into the demented caprices of the mighty, the bad graces of the IRS and the humiliating abyss of adulterous pass ...Show more