The Journals of John Cheever (Vintage International) - Softcover

Cheever, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0307387259 ISBN 13: 9780307387257

Publisher: Vintage, 2008

Synopsis

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 dark, always closely observed inner world. No American writer of comparable stature has left such an unreservedly revealing and moving account of himself: his family life, his literary life, and his emotional life. The final word from one of modern America's great writers, The Journals of John Cheever provides a powerful and beautiful capstone to a towering oeuvre.

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Review:

"A treasure-trove of riches. . . . His particular gifts . . . place the journals among the very best of the form." --Mary Gordon, The New York Times Book Review"John Cheever is an enchanted realist, and his voice . . . is as rich and distinctive as any of the leading voices of postwar American literature." --Philip Roth"A provocative introduction to the mind and craft of an important American author." --The Boston Globe"A stunning itinerary of a lost man intermittently saved by a change of wind or a moment of love... You won't find a more intimate self-portrait of a writer." --Entertainment Weekly

About the Author:

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 received the Howells Medal for Fiction and the National Medal for Literature. He died in 1982.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0307387259
• ISBN 13: 9780307387257
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416
• Editor: Gottlieb Robert