The Letters Of John Cheever - Softcover

Cheever, John; Cheever, Benjamin Hale

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9780099748403: The Letters Of John Cheever

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099748401 ISBN 13: 9780099748403

Publisher: Vintage, 1992

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Edited by his son, this is a collection of the letters of the American novelist and short-story writer, John Cheever, a winner of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize. It includes correspondence with contemporaries such as Saul Bellow, Malcolm Cowley, John Updike and Philip Roth, and addresses all periods and many aspects of Cheever's life, from his days as a young aspiring writer to the years following the success of "The Stories of John Cheever", his bisexuality and his successful battle with alcoholism.

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Review:

"He lies, in American writing, somewhere between Scott Fitzgerald and John Updike" (Malcolm Bradbury)

"The master of the short story was also the master of the short letter" (Sunday Times)

"I enjoyed The Letters of John Cheever enormously... Cheever shone in his three-paragraph masterpieces about temperamental plumbing, pets, and the loneliness of the short story-writer" (Zoe Heller)

"Cheever's work - a succession of brilliant short stories for the New Yorker and four novels - depends on an edgy eye for detail and a compulsive narrative personality" (Independent)

"John's letters and Benjamin's commentary makes a special kind of dialogue that touches and haunts, both in what is said and what is kept silent" (Los Angeles Times)

Book Description:

'A writer of grace and wit, quietly dealing with people, like himself, who sense that their seemly, well-respected lives are being lived upon a precipice' Sunday Times

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