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The Stories of John Cheever

John Cheever

The Stories of John Cheever

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The American writer, John Cheever, died in 1982, leaving behind 29 loose-leaf notebooks begun in the late Forties. They form the content of this book. His commitment to them was of central importance to his life - as a workbook and a retreat, an unhindered act of self-revelation where he could explore his ambiguities. 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 great writer, but one whose acute levels of perception often crippled him as a person.

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Publisher
Penguin
Year
1993
ISBN-13
9780099212218
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Suburban life and identitySexuality and repressionAddiction and self-destruction