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Jan 15, 1992 | ISBN 9780679737858 Buy
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Jan 15, 1992 | ISBN 9780679737858
Jul 26, 2010 | ISBN 9780307759986
John Cheever’s last novel is a fable set in a village so idyllic it has no fast-food outlet and having as its protagonist an old man, Lemuel Sears, who still has it in him to fall wildly in love with strangers of both sexes. But Sears’s paradise is threatened; the pond he loves is being fouled by unscrupulous polluters. In Cheever’s accomplished hands the battle between an elderly romantic and the monstrous aspects of late-twentieth-century civilization becomes something ribald, poignant, and ineffably joyful.
John Cheever was born in 1912. He is the author of seven collections of stories and five novels. He won the National Book Award for The Wapshot Chronicle, and the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for The Stories of John… More about John Cheever
“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“This is perfect Cheever—it is perfect.” —The New York Times Book Review“A luminous epiphany of life…. A charming fable of old age, nostalgia, and loss…engaging and complex…vivid and alive.” —The Washington Post Book World“Beautiful…graceful…winning…both upbeat and true to life…. Oh, what a literary paradise is John Cheever!” —San Francisco Chronicle“Filled with the master’s wonderful word magic…. There simply isn’t another writer like him…a delight.” —Chicago Tribune
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