The Letters of John Cheever

Cheever, John; Cheever, Benjamin (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0671628739 / ISBN 13: 9780671628734

Published by Simon and Schuster, New York, 1988

About this Item

Simon and Schuster, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. Condition: Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Linen binding with gilt lettering on spine, light green paper-covered boards, green inside covers and end papers. Illustrated with black & white photographs. A beautiful copy in a flawless dustjacket, protected in a clear archival mylar cover. From the dustjacket: "Novelist, short-story writer, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, John Cheever is one of America's most significant literary figures. At his death in 1982 he left an enduring body of published work which both perfectly captures the lives of a class of men and women in the middle of our century - their aspirations and tribulations, their peccadilloes as well as their graver sins - and elevates those same lives to the transcendent level of myth." Carefully packaged and shipped in a sturdy cardboard box.

Seller Inventory # 10644

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Letters of John Cheever
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster, New York
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0671628739
• ISBN 13: 9780671628734
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Carin Goldberg, jacket design
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography & Memoirs
  • Non-fiction

About this title

Synopsis

Offers insight into the life of the Pulitzer prize-winning author through his correspondence with other writers, his wife, children, and lovers, covering personal and professional aspects of his life from his days as a young writer until his death

About the Author

Benjamin Cheever, the author of four novels and two works of nonfiction, has also been a newspaper reporter and an editor at Reader's Digest. He lives in Pleasantville, New York, with his wife and sons.