The Journals of John Cheever
by John Cheever
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Three decades of writer John Cheever's journals giving an account of his family life, literary life, and emotional life. An outstanding literary event: the journals--begun in the late 1940s and continued through more than three decades--of a great American writer. John Cheever's journals provide, of course, peerless insights into the creation of his novels and stories. But they are equally the record of a complex, often dark, always closely observed inner world. No 20th-century American show more writer of comparable stature left such an unreservedly revealing and moving account of himself: his family life, his literary life, his emotional life. Its publication (more than 170,000 words from the massive complete text) brings us startlingly close to the writer and the man, and adds to Cheever's oeuvre a final, powerful, and beautiful work. With an introduction by his son Benjamin H. Cheever and an editor's note by Robert Gottlieb.--Adapted from dust jacket. show lessTags
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Cheever's JOURNALS are gorgeously composed, trial runs for the short stories and novels he so meticulously constructed. The words pour out of him, startling, candid observations of the world surrounding him rendered in peerless prose.
A book for careful, scrupulous readers, folks who enjoy reading poetry slowly, savoring each syllable or inflection.
A book for careful, scrupulous readers, folks who enjoy reading poetry slowly, savoring each syllable or inflection.
Compulsive reading. The effect is as if one is being allowed complete access to Cheever's consciousness (and parts of his unconscious too, in the unforgettable dream descriptions.) Usually sad and frequently hilarious. And, of course, beautiful.
Unsettling and a bit sad.
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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 17, and in 1979, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his collected edition of short stories, titled Stories of John Cheever. Cheever also wrote screenplays, and show more five novels, including The Wapshot Chronicle, which won the National Book Award in 1957. Cheever died in 1982, at the age of 70. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- The Journals of John Cheever
- Original title
- The Journals Of John Cheever
- Original publication date
- 1991
- Publisher's editor*
- De Arbeidspers, Amsterdam Privé-domein
- Original language*
- Engels
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- Biography & Memoir, Literature Studies and Criticism
- DDC/MDS
- 818.5203 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American miscellaneous writings in English 20th Century 1900-1945 Diaries
- LCC
- PS3505 .H6428 .Z467 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1900-1960
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