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John Cheever (1912–1982)

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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 vis mere John Cheever. Cheever also wrote screenplays, and 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) vis mindre
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Værker af John Cheever

The Stories of John Cheever (1978) 3,348 eksemplarer
The Wapshot Chronicle (1957) 1,573 eksemplarer
Falconer fængslet (1977) 1,396 eksemplarer
Bullet Park (1969) 716 eksemplarer
The Wapshot Scandal (1964) 551 eksemplarer
Oh What a Paradise It Seems (1982) 504 eksemplarer
The Journals of John Cheever (1991) 408 eksemplarer
The Letters of John Cheever (1988) 185 eksemplarer
The World of Apples: Stories (1973) — Forfatter — 146 eksemplarer
The Brigadier and the Golf Widow (1964) 84 eksemplarer
The Swimmer (1994) 74 eksemplarer
The John Cheever Audio Collection (2003) 33 eksemplarer
La geometria del amor (1998) 33 eksemplarer
Cuentos (2012) 28 eksemplarer
Il nuotatore (1982) 26 eksemplarer
Vintage Cheever (2005) 25 eksemplarer
Fall River e altri racconti (2011) 21 eksemplarer
The World of Apples {story} (1973) 21 eksemplarer
Drinking: Vintage Minis (2017) 21 eksemplarer
Relatos 1 (2006) 17 eksemplarer
Contes (2007) 15 eksemplarer
Relatos 2 (2006) 15 eksemplarer
Stories (1956) 15 eksemplarer
L'Ange sur le pont (1987) 12 eksemplarer
I racconti (2012) 11 eksemplarer
The Uncollected Stories of John Cheever (1988) — Forfatter — 10 eksemplarer
Déjeuner de famille (2007) 10 eksemplarer
O Youth And Beauty! (1996) 9 eksemplarer
Una specie di solitudine. I diari (2012) 9 eksemplarer
The Swimmer and Death of Justina (1981) 9 eksemplarer
A Vision of the World (2021) 8 eksemplarer
Simmaren : noveller (2019) 7 eksemplarer
Goodbye, My Brother (1987) 7 eksemplarer
The Way Some People Live (1943) 7 eksemplarer
Ballata (2001) 6 eksemplarer
Cuentos completos (2009) 5 eksemplarer
The Five-Forty-Eight (2009) 5 eksemplarer
Fall River (2010) 5 eksemplarer
The Country Husband 5 eksemplarer
Diarios (2006) 5 eksemplarer
Torch Song 4 eksemplarer
The Sutton Place Story 4 eksemplarer
Cartas (Literatura Random House) (2018) 3 eksemplarer
L'homme de ses rêves (2011) 3 eksemplarer
The Superintendent 3 eksemplarer
The Jewels Of The Cabots (2009) 3 eksemplarer
The Trouble Of Marcie Flint (1997) 3 eksemplarer
Selected short stories 3 eksemplarer
The Common Day 2 eksemplarer
The Chaste Clarissa (2009) 2 eksemplarer
The Pot of Gold 2 eksemplarer
The Hartleys 2 eksemplarer
Atlantic crossing (1986) 2 eksemplarer
The Cure 2 eksemplarer
Racconti italiani (2009) 2 eksemplarer
Miłosna Ballada 2 eksemplarer
The Happiest Days 2 eksemplarer
John Cheever - Toplu Öyküler (2022) 2 eksemplarer
Wapshot, Los (2014) 2 eksemplarer
The Summer Farmer 2 eksemplarer
The Bus To St. James's 2 eksemplarer
The Scarlet Moving Van 2 eksemplarer
The Wrysons 2 eksemplarer
The Bella Lingua 2 eksemplarer
The Season Of Divorce (2009) 2 eksemplarer
The Worm In The Apple 2 eksemplarer
Just One More Time 2 eksemplarer
Clementina 2 eksemplarer
The Sorrows Of Gin (2002) 2 eksemplarer
The Children 2 eksemplarer
Birra scura e cipolle dolci (2017) 1 eksemplar
Wizja świata 1 eksemplar
Frère Jacques 1 eksemplar
El nedador (2023) 1 eksemplar
JOHN CHEEVER - SPECIE DI SOLIT (2015) 1 eksemplar
Le lettere (2015) 1 eksemplar
Odabrane priče 1 eksemplar
Una visione del mondo (2021) 1 eksemplar
Contos completos II 1 eksemplar
Toplu Öyküler (2022) 1 eksemplar
Six Decades At Yaddo (1986) 1 eksemplar
The Chimera 1 eksemplar
Signs of hope 1 eksemplar
Marken i eplet : noveller (1980) 1 eksemplar
Selected Prose 1 eksemplar
The Duchess 1 eksemplar
Brimmer 1 eksemplar
The Golden Age 1 eksemplar
The Lowboy 1 eksemplar
The Music Teacher 1 eksemplar
The Death of Justina (2009) 1 eksemplar
Boy In Rome 1 eksemplar
The Seaside Houses 1 eksemplar
The Fourth Alarm 1 eksemplar
Cheever John 1 eksemplar
Three Stories 1 eksemplar
Percy 1 eksemplar
Another Story 1 eksemplar
Marito in Città 1 eksemplar
The Ocean 1 eksemplar
Montraldo 1 eksemplar
Metamorphoses 1 eksemplar

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The Oxford Book of American Short Stories (1992) — Bidragyder — 743 eksemplarer
Short Story Masterpieces (1954) — Bidragyder — 675 eksemplarer
Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink (2007) — Bidragyder — 535 eksemplarer
In the Stacks: Short Stories about Libraries and Librarians (2002) — Bidragyder — 531 eksemplarer
The Oxford Book of Short Stories (1981) — Bidragyder — 510 eksemplarer
The World of the Short Story: A 20th Century Collection (1986) — Bidragyder — 461 eksemplarer
American Gothic Tales (1996) — Bidragyder — 457 eksemplarer
Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow (1952) — Bidragyder — 435 eksemplarer
Fifty Great American Short Stories (1965) — Bidragyder — 430 eksemplarer
Points of View: Revised Edition (1966) — Bidragyder — 411 eksemplarer
The Granta Book of the American Short Story (1992) — Bidragyder — 368 eksemplarer
Sudden Fiction: American Short-Short Stories (1984) — Bidragyder — 362 eksemplarer
Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker (2000) — Bidragyder — 354 eksemplarer
The Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories (1994) — Bidragyder — 317 eksemplarer
The Best of Modern Humor (1983) — Bidragyder — 291 eksemplarer
100 Years of the Best American Short Stories (2015) — Bidragyder — 282 eksemplarer
The 40s: The Story of a Decade (2014) — Bidragyder — 275 eksemplarer
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (1998) — Bidragyder — 275 eksemplarer
The Treasury of American Short Stories (1981) — Bidragyder — 267 eksemplarer
The New Granta Book of the American Short Story (2007) — Bidragyder — 211 eksemplarer
Short Stories from The New Yorker, 1925 to 1940 (1940) — Bidragyder — 201 eksemplarer
Nothing But You: Love Stories From The New Yorker (1997) — Bidragyder — 186 eksemplarer
In Another Part of the Forest: An Anthology of Gay Short Fiction (1994) — Bidragyder — 174 eksemplarer
New York Stories (Everyman's Pocket Classics) (2011) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver152 eksemplarer
Murder & Other Acts of Literature (1997) — Bidragyder — 147 eksemplarer
Magical Realist Fiction: An Anthology (1984) — Bidragyder — 111 eksemplarer
American Short Stories (1976) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver95 eksemplarer
American Fantastic Tales: Boxed Set (2009) — Bidragyder — 92 eksemplarer
Blood Thirst: 100 Years of Vampire Fiction (1997) — Bidragyder — 85 eksemplarer
Stories from The New Yorker, 1950 to 1960 (1958) — Bidragyder — 80 eksemplarer
The Oxford Book of Travel Stories (1996) — Bidragyder — 74 eksemplarer
The Ecco Book of Christmas Stories (2005) — Bidragyder — 73 eksemplarer
Great Esquire Fiction (1983) — Bidragyder — 70 eksemplarer
Ross Macdonald Selects Great Stories of Suspense (1974) — Bidragyder — 69 eksemplarer
200 Years of Great American Short Stories (1975) — Bidragyder — 68 eksemplarer
Nightshade: 20th Century Ghost Stories (1999) — Bidragyder — 64 eksemplarer
55 Short Stories from The New Yorker, 1940 to 1950 (1949) — Bidragyder — 60 eksemplarer
The Norton Book Of Ghost Stories (1994) — Bidragyder — 49 eksemplarer
Reel Terror (1992) — Bidragyder — 48 eksemplarer
Urban Horrors (1941) — Bidragyder — 40 eksemplarer
Fifty Best American Short Stories 1915-1965 (1965) — Bidragyder — 36 eksemplarer
Round the Christmas Fire: Festive Stories (2013) — Bidragyder — 34 eksemplarer
Beach : Stories by the Sand and Sea (2000) — Bidragyder — 32 eksemplarer
Stories To Get You Through The Night (2010) — Bidragyder — 32 eksemplarer
The Swimmer [1968 film] (1968) — Original book — 30 eksemplarer
Great Short Stories of the World (1965) — Bidragyder — 25 eksemplarer
The Best American Short Stories 1973 (1973) — Bidragyder — 23 eksemplarer
Studies in Fiction (1965) — Bidragyder — 22 eksemplarer
The Best American Short Stories 1963 (1963) — Bidragyder — 19 eksemplarer
The Best American Short Stories 1977 (1977) — Bidragyder — 15 eksemplarer
Half-a-Hundred Stories for Men, Great Tales by American Writers (1945) — Bidragyder — 15 eksemplarer
Family: Stories from the Interior (1987) — Bidragyder — 15 eksemplarer
The Best American Short Stories 1959 (1959) — Bidragyder — 13 eksemplarer
Twenty-Nine Stories (1960) — Bidragyder — 13 eksemplarer
The Best American Short Stories 1955 (1955) — Bidragyder — 13 eksemplarer
31 Stories (1960) — Bidragyder — 12 eksemplarer
The Playboy Book of Short Stories (1995) — Bidragyder — 11 eksemplarer
The Best American Short Stories 1943 (1943) — Bidragyder — 11 eksemplarer
The best of the Best American short stories, 1915-1950 (1975) — Bidragyder — 10 eksemplarer
A Vintage Christmas (Vintage Minis) (2018) — Bidragyder — 9 eksemplarer
The Best American Short Stories 1951 (1951) — Bidragyder — 6 eksemplarer
The Best American Short Stories 1948 (1948) — Bidragyder — 5 eksemplarer
Huivering wekken : 26 onthutsende verhalen (1982) — Bidragyder — 4 eksemplarer
Moderne Amerikaanse verhalen — Bidragyder — 3 eksemplarer
Vader is de beste — Forfatter — 3 eksemplarer
Short Fiction: Shape and Substance (1971) — Bidragyder — 3 eksemplarer
Enjoying Stories (1987) — Bidragyder — 2 eksemplarer
Stories of Sudden Truth (1953) — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar

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John Cheever's Falconer is one of those books you wonder what the author's intent was in writing it. Its protagonist, Ezekiel Farragut, is an inmate in the eponymous prison, incarcerated for the murder of his brother, Eben. In prison, he is mostly just his surname, occasionally his convict number. Only when he interacts with his family is he referred to by his Christian name.

Very little about Farragut is relatable or likeable. He is an opium addict. His marriage, even before his crime, is troubled, mostly as the result of his own behavior. Despite a lifetime of heterosexuality, he easily slides into homosexual acts with other prisoners, going so far as to fall in love with one. The overabundance of Farragut's homosexual behavior dominates much of the book, reminding me of the repetitive non-sequiturs in Breakfast of Champions about various characters' dick sizes.

Near the end of the book, we learn the circumstances of Farragut's crime; interestingly, this is when Cheever most comes across as an unreliable third-person narrator. Farragut verbally claims to have struck his brother but once; at trial, his brother is shown to have suffered repeated blows. Cheever never reconciles the two accounts, nor does he clarify or contradict other significant details pertaining to the murder as told by Farragut.

Falconer ends rather than concludes, and when it does, I'm unclear what I'm supposed to think of Farragut and his uncertain future. Given the Biblical origin of his name, the novel might be interpreted as a modern recreation of prophecies of Ezekiel. Farragut's imprisonment represents the Jewish exile to Babylon; the riot at another prison, Amana, the destruction of Jerusalem; Farragut's ultimate escape and rejoicing, the Jews' restoration to the land of Israel. Cheever's allegory—if that's what Falconer is—portrays them as the actions of criminals and degenerates, leaving the book's meaning difficult to comprehend.
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skavlanj | 18 andre anmeldelser | Jan 27, 2024 |
Nothing in particular happens in this book, but it kept me interested enough to keep turning pages until the end.
 
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blueskygreentrees | 18 andre anmeldelser | Jul 30, 2023 |
 
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Alvaritogn | 18 andre anmeldelser | Jul 16, 2023 |
Esto parece el paraíso es la fábula más inteligente, mágica y encantadora de John Cheever. No exenta de toques realistas, supone la vuelta del autor a una visión de la vida contemporánea más alegre y esperanzada, tras sus novelas y cuentos que examinaban el fracaso del sueño americano. Esto parece el paraíso es el brillante colofón a una de las carreras literarias más importantes del siglo XX.
El protagonista de esta historia es Lemuel Sears, un hombre elegante, de pelo blanco y piel morena que empieza a sentirse viejo. Teme estar llegando al final de su vida y perder así la capacidad de enamorarse, capacidad que ejerce con personas de ambos sexos. Pero en el curso de pocos días, dos acontecimientos cambiarán su destino: el primero es conocer a Renée, una joven de la que se enamora perdidamente, y el segundo es la lucha que debe emprender contra la gente que ha contaminado la laguna de su pueblo, un atropello a la placidez del paisaje y también a la continuidad de su existencia.… (mere)
 
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