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Convicted and imprisoned for having killed his brother, an exceptional middle-aged man enters into a close relationship with a thief and hustler named Jody and experiences an unexpected liberation
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"Cheever's triumph.... A great American novel." --Newsweek
"One of the most important novels of our time.... Read it and be ennobled." --The New York Times "Falconer is splendid. It is rough, it is elegant, it is pure. It is also indispensable, if you earnestly desire to know what is happening to the human soul in the U.S.A." --Saul Bellow "One of our truly fine writers.... The novel proceeds directly on its course, taking the reader along with it.... Moving and excellent." --The Washington PostBook Description
The raw, rage-filled final novel from a master American storyteller
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Falconer
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Falconer
Seller: Book Express (NZ), Shannon, New Zealand
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Paperback. Condition: Good. 160 pages. cover worn Stunning and brutally powerful, Falconer tells the story of a man named Farra gut, his crime and punishment, and his struggle to remain a man in a universe be nt on beating him back into childhood. Only John Cheever could deliver these gra nd themes with the irony, unforced eloquence, and exhilarating humor that make F alconer such a triumphant work of the moral imagination. Seller Inventory # 4026bb