John Cheever

Oh What a Paradise It Seems is a 1982 novella by John Cheever. It is Cheever's last work of fiction, published shortly before his death from cancer. The main character is Lemuel Sears, an elderly computer-industry executive, twice-widowed, who pursues an ardent but unsuccessful love affair with Renee, a beautiful but …

Bullet Park is a 1969 novel by American Novelist John Cheever about an earnest yet pensive father Eliot Nailles and his troubled son Tony, and their predestined fate with a psychotic man Hammer, who moves to Bullet Park to sacrifice one of them. The book deals with the failure of the American dream, spoken in a …

"These stories," writes Cheever in the preface to this Pulitzer Prize winning collection of stories, "seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light, when you heard the Benny Goodman quartets from a radio in the corner stationary store, and when almost …

Falconer is in 1977 geschreven door de Amerikaanse schrijver John Cheever. Het verhaal gaat over Ezekiel Farragut, een universitair docent en drugsverslaafde die vast zit in de "Falconer State" gevangenis vanwege de moord op zijn broer. Farragut vecht om zijn menselijkheid te behouden totdat hij een affaire begint met …