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About 356 pages (106,905 words) in 39 products |
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| Name: |
John Cheever | | Birth Date: |
May 27, 1912 | | Death Date: |
June 18, 1982 | | Place of Birth: |
Quincy, Massachusetts, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
writer, author |
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 Biography of John Cheever
1,068 words, approx. 4 pages
 John Cheever (1912-1982) was an American writer known for his keen, often critical, view of the American middle class. Known primarily for his short stories, his attention to detail and careful writing found the extraordinary in the ordinary. I have... summary from source:
 Biography of John Cheever
10,311 words, approx. 34 pages
 Few American writers have been so clear in mapping their recurrent subject matter and themes as John Cheever. From his first published story, "Expelled," he has been concerned with the Fall from a condition of Edenic childlike innocence into the... summary from source:
Biography of John Cheever
9,669 words, approx. 32 pages
To outward appearances John Cheever was very much a child of the American twentieth century. Born just before World War I, he lived through the halcyon Jazz Age, suffered through the Depression, and served as a noncombatant in the army during World War...
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 John Cheever Quotes
269 words, approx. 1 pages
John Cheever (1912 - 1982) American novelist and short story writer Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 The Wapshot Chronicle (1957) 2 Attributed 3 External links // Sourced The Wapshot Chronicle (1957) "...your underwear is clean in case you should be hit by a...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 John Cheever Information
2,640 words, approx. 9 pages
John Cheever (May 27, 1912–June 18, 1982) was an American novelist and short story writer, sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs" or "the Ovid of Ossining." His fiction is mostly set in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the Westchester...
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 National Review John Cheever: A Biography.
01/27/1989: 410 words, approx. 1 pages John Cheever A Biography, by Scott Donaldson (Random House, 359 pp., $22.50) SCOTT DONALDSON'S biography of John Cheever is a competent, if overly cautious, account of a writer who careened both in life and in fiction between light and dark, grace and... summary from source:
The Boston Globe The Mystery Of John Cheever
02/03/1988: 555 words, approx. 2 pages CONVERSATIONS WITH JOHN CHEEVER, edited by Scott Donaldson. University Press of Mississippi. 259 pp. $24.95 ($14.95, paperback). John Cheever remains among the most mysterious of American writers. Since his death in 1982, disclosures about his bisexuality, tousled family life and alcoholism have... summary from source:
 The New York Observer Oh Norman, My Norman
11/13/2007: 451 words, approx. 2 pagesWho was Mailer? He growled, boxed, inhabited the Earth. Breslin: 'People think he was a crazed creature—he wasn't.' MORE ... The subject was old age. Norman Mailer said there was a grace in aging. He didn’t feel as angry or self-involved as he once did;... summary from source:
The New York Observer The Courage to Be Wrong
11/13/2007: 975 words, approx. 3 pages Several years ago I wrote a snotty essay, “The Smiley Face at the End of the Tunnel,” which posited that very good but not great writers of secular disposition often produce an uncommonly “spiritual” novel at the end of their lives. It’s not that...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Scott Donaldson
8,007 words, approx. 27 pages
In the following essay, Donaldson examines how Cheever exploits the contrast between the turmoil of his characters' inner lives and the seeming tranquility of their outer lives in The Housebreaker of Shady Hill and Other Stories.
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Thomas B. Gilmore
7,825 words, approx. 26 pages
In the following essay Gilmore describes John Cheever's portrayal of alcoholism in his short fiction, both for comic effect and as a social critique of the upper-middle class.
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Critical Essay by Burton Kendle
5,808 words, approx. 19 pages
In the following essay, Kendle maintains that Cheever's stories are unified by a “passionate attempt to retain and foster an image” of an Eden-like past manifested in places, patterns of behavior, or inner innocence.
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