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In the twilight of the twentieth century a constellation of strange events and circumstances embody the despair and the renewal of aging Lemuel Sears amid corruption, villainy, mystery, and love
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An old man falls violently in love and does valiant battle against unscrupulous polluters in John Cheever's ineffably joyful last novel.
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John Cheever was born in 1912. He is the author of seven collections of stories and five novels. He won the National Book Award for The Wapshot Chronicle and the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for The Stories of John Cheever. He also received the Howells Medal for Fiction and the National Medal for Literature. He died in 1982.
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- PublisherJonathan Cape
- Publication date1982
- ISBN 10 0224029304
- ISBN 13 9780224029308
- BindingHardcover
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