Best Seller

Bullet Park

Name: Bullet Park
Price: 16.00 USD
Availability: InStock
Author: John Cheever
ISBN: 9780679737872

Paperback $16.00

Published on Jan 15, 1992 | 256 Pages

Buy from Other Retailers:

$16.00

Published on Jan 15, 1992 | 256 Pages

Buy from Other Retailers:

From “a master American storyteller” (TIME), Bullet Park traces the fateful intersection of two men: Eliot Nailles, a nice fellow who loves his wife and son to blissful distraction, and the man who, after half a lifetime of drifting, settles down in Bullet Park with one objective—to murder Nailles’s son.

Welcome to Bullet Park, a township in which even the most buttoned-down gentry sometimes manage to terrify themselves simply by looking in the mirror. In these exemplary environs Pulitzer Prize winner John Cheever delivers a lyrical and mordantly funny hymn to the American suburb—and to all the dubious normalcy it represents—written with unparalleled artistry and assurance.

“A magnificent work of fiction.… A novel to pore over, move around in, live with.” —The New York Times

“A magnificent work of fiction.… A novel to pore over, move around in, live with.” —The New York Times

“John Cheever is an enchanted realist, and his voice, in his luminous short stories and in incomparable novels like Bullet Park and Falconer, is as rich and distinctive as any of the leading voices of postwar American literature.” —Philip Roth

“A master American storyteller.” —Time

“In a class by itself, not only among Cheever’s work but among all the novels I know.” —Joseph Heller

“John Cheever’s prose is always a pleasure to read because it is both graceful and governed.” —Chicago Tribune

Author

John Cheever

John Cheever was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1912. He is the author of seven collections of stories and five novels. His first novel, The Wapshot Chronicle, won the 1958 National Book Award. In 1965 he received the Howells Medal for Fiction from the National Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 1978 The Stories of John Cheever won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Shortly before his death in 1982, he was awarded the National Medal for Literature from the Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.

Learn More

Bullet Park

Related Genres

You May Also Like

Of the Farm

The Complete Novels of Flann O’Brien

My House in Umbria

The Room and the Chair

The Cement Garden

The Wings of the Dove

The Poorhouse Fair

Wild Abandon

Trust Me

The Deep End of the Ocean

Success!

Part of Vintage International