Oh What a Paradise It Seems (Vintage International) - Softcover

Cheever, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679737855 ISBN 13: 9780679737858

Publisher: Vintage Books, 1992

Synopsis

John Cheever's last novel is a fable set in a village so idyllic it has no fast-food outlet and having as its protagonist an old man, Lemuel Sears, who still has it in him to fall wildly in love with strangers of both sexes. But Sears's paradise is threatened; the pond he loves is being fouled by unscrupulous polluters. In Cheever's accomplished hands the battle between an elderly romantic and the monstrous aspects of late-twentieth-century civilization becomes something ribald, poignant, and ineffably joyful.

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Review:

"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 is perfect Cheever--it is perfect." --The New York Times Book Review

"A luminous epiphany of life.... A charming fable of old age, nostalgia, and loss...engaging and complex...vivid and alive." --The Washington Post Book World

"Beautiful...graceful...winning...both upbeat and true to life.... Oh, what a literary paradise is John Cheever!" --San Francisco Chronicle

"Filled with the master's wonderful word magic.... There simply isn't another writer like him...a delight." --Chicago Tribune

Book Description:

'A delight to read' Evening Standard

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Books
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0679737855
• ISBN 13: 9780679737858
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112