The Letters of John Cheever
Cheever, John; Cheever, Benjamin (Editor)
Language: English
Published by Simon and Schuster, New York, 1988
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Linden Avenue Books, Salem, OR, U.S.A.Linden Avenue Books
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Condition: Used - Fine
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Simon and Schuster, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. Condition: Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Linen binding with gilt lettering on spine, light green paper-covered boards, green inside covers and end papers. Illustrated with black & white photographs. A beautiful copy in a flawless dustjacket, protected in a clear archival mylar cover. From the dustjacket: "Novelist, short-story writer, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, John Cheever is one of America's most significant literary figures. At his death in 1982 he left an enduring body of published work which both perfectly captures the lives of a class of men and women in the middle of our century - their aspirations and tribulations, their peccadilloes as well as their graver sins - and elevates those same lives to the transcendent level of myth." Carefully packaged and shipped in a sturdy cardboard box.
Seller Inventory # 10644
- Title
- The Letters of John Cheever
- Author
- Cheever, John; Cheever, Benjamin (Editor)
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster, New York
- Publication year
- 1988
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0671628739
- ISBN 13
- 9780671628734
- Illustrator
- Carin Goldberg, jacket design
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Seller catalogs
- Biography & Memoirs, Non-fiction
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Review
"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)
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Linden Avenue Books
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