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)
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'A delight to read' Evening Standard
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Oh What a Paradise It Seems
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