John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings
CHEEVER, John
ISBN 10: 1598530356 ISBN 13: 9781598530353
Published by Library of America, New York, 2009
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First edition. Softcover. 933 pages. Uncorrected proof. Includes "The Wapshot Chronicle," "The Wapshot Scandal," "Bullet Park," "Falconer," and "Oh What a Paradise it Seems." A near fine copy in printed wrappers that are lightly soiled and with laid in publicity letter. Uncommon in this format. Seller Inventory # 193322
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Published to coincide with editor Blake Bailey?s groundbreaking new biography, here are the five novels of John Cheever, together in one volume for the first time. In these dazzling works Cheever laid bare the failings and foibles of not just the ascendant postwar elite but also the fallen Yankee aristocrats who stubbornly? and often grotesquely and hilariously?cling to their shabby gentility as the last vestige of former glory. Complete Novels gathers: the riotous family saga The Wapshot Chronicle (winner of the National Book Award) and its sequel The Wapshot Scandal (winner of the William Dean Howells Medal); the dark suburban drama Bullet Park (?a magnificent work of fiction,? John Gardner remarked in The New York Times Book Review); the prison novel Falconer, a radical departure that met with both critical and popular acclaim; and the lyrical ecological fable Oh What a Paradise It Seems. A companion volume, Collected Stories
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John Cheever (1912-1982) was one of the most celebrated novelists and short story writers of the last century, winner of the National Book Award for his first novel, The Wapshot Chronicle (1957), and both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award for The Stories of John Cheever (1978).
Blake Bailey is the author of A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates. His 2009 biography of John Cheever won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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Title: John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other ...
Publisher: Library of America, New York
Publication Date: 2009
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: 1st Edition
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