Falconer: A33740 (Folio)

Cheever, John

ISBN 10: 2070337405 ISBN 13: 9782070337408

Publisher: Gallimard, 2009

Synopsis

In a nightmarish prison a convict named Farragut--a professor, drug addict, and a fratricide--struggles to remain a man. "One of the most important novels of our time . . . Read it and be ennobled".--Los Angeles Times.

About this title

About the Author:

John Cheever, best known for his short stories dealing with upper-middle-class suburban life, was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1912. Cheever published his first short story at the age of seventeen. He was the recipient of a 1951 Guggenheim Fellowship and winner of a National Book Award for The Wapshot Chronicle in 1958, the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Stories of John Cheever, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and an American Book Award. He died in 1982, at the age of seventy.

From the Inside Flap:

In a nightmarish prison a convict named Farragut struggles to remain a man. Out of Farragut's suffering and astonishing salvation, Cheever crafted his most powerful work of fiction.

About this edition

• Publisher: Gallimard
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 2070337405
• ISBN 13: 9782070337408
• Binding: Pocket Book
• Number of pages: 272