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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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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1979
- ISBN 10 0140048669
- ISBN 13 9780140048667
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages160
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR004804619
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Paperback. Condition: Good. Stunning and brutally powerful, Falconer tells the story of a man named Far ragut, his crime and punishment, and his struggle to remain a man in a univ erse bent on beating him back into childhood. Only John Cheever could deliv er these grand themes with the irony, unforced eloquence, and exhilarating humor that make Falconer such a triumphant work of the moral imagination. Seller Inventory # RWARE0000071291
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