OH WHAT A PARADISE IT - Softcover

Cheever, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345308832 ISBN 13: 9780345308832

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1983

Synopsis

Novel - Cheever's last novel is a fable set in a village so idyllic that it has no fast-food outlet, and its protagonist is an old man who still has it in him to fall wildly in love with strangers of both sexes. But his paradise is threatened - the pond he loves is being fouled by unscrupulous polluters.

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Review:

"This delightful fable shows him at the height of his powers" (Observer)

"John Cheever is an enchanted realist, and his voice, in his luminous short stories and in incomparable novels like Bullet Park and Falconer, is as rich and distinctive as any of the leading voices of postwar American literature" (Philip Roth)

"This curious novella is Cheever's wry pastoral fable about the state of modern America" (Sunday Times)

"Sheer pleasure...his prose is charged like Scott Fitzgerald's" (Listener)

"John Cheever understood fallibility and that made for the greatness in his writing" (The Times)

Book Description:

'A delight to read' Evening Standard

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0345308832
• ISBN 13: 9780345308832
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback