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Cheever
A Life
Author: Blake Bailey
Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner
Unabridged: 27 hr 57 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 03/03/2009
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Synopsis
Here, for the first time, is the full and unforgettable life of John Cheever (19121982), written with unprecedented access to essential sources. Cheever was a soul in conflict, a highschool dropout who published his first story at eighteen, a dire alcoholic who recovered to write the great novel Falconer, a secret bisexual who struggled with his longings and his fierce homophobia, whose groundbreaking work landed him on the covers of Time and Newsweek, a man who believed in the power of family love and sexual pleasure, a man whose desperate loneliness was never wholly offset by his faith in the joy of creation.