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
Image credit: Photo by Nancy Crampton, courtesy of Ossining Public Library
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Værker af John Cheever
Glad Tidings: A Friendship in Letters : The Correspondence of John Cheever and John D. Weaver, 1945-1982 (1993) 16 eksemplarer
The Day The Pig Fell Into The Well 7 eksemplarer
The Country Husband 5 eksemplarer
Torch Song 4 eksemplarer
The Sutton Place Story 4 eksemplarer
O City of Broken Dreams (in The Granta Book of the American Short Story - FORD) (2009) 4 eksemplarer
The Superintendent 3 eksemplarer
Selected short stories 3 eksemplarer
The Common Day 2 eksemplarer
Clancy in the Tower of Babel 2 eksemplarer
The Pot of Gold 2 eksemplarer
The Hartleys 2 eksemplarer
The Cure 2 eksemplarer
Rare John Cheever FALCONER Signed First Edition 1977 -Alfred A. Knopf [Hardcover] John Cheever 2 eksemplarer
Miłosna Ballada 2 eksemplarer
Hyvästi, veljeni : kertomuksia 2 eksemplarer
The Happiest Days 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 Enormous Radio” 2 eksemplarer
The Worm In The Apple 2 eksemplarer
A Woman Without A Country 2 eksemplarer
Just One More Time 2 eksemplarer
Clementina 2 eksemplarer
The Children 2 eksemplarer
RARE 1957 JOHN CHEEVER FIRST NOVEL 1ST EDITION WAPSHOT CHRONICLE GREAT DJ [Hardcover] JOHN CHEEVER 1 eksemplar
Wizja świata 1 eksemplar
Frère Jacques 1 eksemplar
I’m Going to Asia (Selected Short Stories) 1 eksemplar
Solo un'altra volta: Tutti i racconti vol. II 1 eksemplar
Ovo stvarno liči na raj 1 eksemplar
L'età dell'oro: Tutti i racconti vol. III 1 eksemplar
John Cheever Stories 1 eksemplar
Rare John Cheever THE WORLD OF APPLES Signed First Edition 1973 -Alfred A. Knopf [Hardcover] John Cheever 1 eksemplar
The City of Lost Dreams 1 eksemplar
Odabrane priče 1 eksemplar
Contos completos II 1 eksemplar
The National Pastime 1 eksemplar
The Wapshot Chronical; the Wapshot Scandel 1 eksemplar
Just Tell Me Who It Was 1 eksemplar
The Chimera 1 eksemplar
Of love: a testimony 1 eksemplar
Signs of hope 1 eksemplar
The art of fiction LXII 1 eksemplar
Un giorno qualsiasi (in Il nuotatore) 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
Boy In Rome 1 eksemplar
A Miscellany Of Characters That Will Not Appear 1 eksemplar
The Seaside Houses 1 eksemplar
Återföreningen och andra noveller Box 1 1 eksemplar
The Fourth Alarm 1 eksemplar
Wykształcona Amerykanka : opowiadania 1 eksemplar
Cheever John 1 eksemplar
Three Stories 1 eksemplar
Artemis, The Honest Well Digger 1 eksemplar
Percy 1 eksemplar
An Educated American Woman 1 eksemplar
Another Story 1 eksemplar
Marito in Città 1 eksemplar
The Ocean 1 eksemplar
Montraldo 1 eksemplar
Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin 1 eksemplar
Metamorphoses 1 eksemplar
Orasul visurilor spulberate 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver — 915 eksemplarer
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Bidragyder — 377 eksemplarer
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now (2009) — Bidragyder — 263 eksemplarer
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994) — Bidragyder — 183 eksemplarer
In Another Part of the Forest: An Anthology of Gay Short Fiction (1994) — Bidragyder — 174 eksemplarer
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Bidragyder — 131 eksemplarer
Adaptations: From Short Story to Big Screen: 35 Great Stories That Have Inspired Great Films (2005) — Bidragyder — 121 eksemplarer
McSweeney's Issue 45 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Hitchcock and Bradbury Fistfight in Heaven (2013) — Bidragyder — 103 eksemplarer
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Expanded 10th-Anniversary Edition) (2008) — Bidragyder — 93 eksemplarer
Cape Cod Stories: Tales from Cape Cod, Nantucket, and Martha's Vineyard (1996) — Bidragyder — 52 eksemplarer
The Second Gates of Paradise: The Anthology of Erotic Short Fiction (1997) — Bidragyder — 36 eksemplarer
The Haves & Have Nots: 30 Stories About Money & Class In America (1999) — Bidragyder — 33 eksemplarer
Selected Shorts: American Classics (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story) (2010) — Bidragyder — 22 eksemplarer
Half-a-Hundred Stories for Men, Great Tales by American Writers (1945) — Bidragyder — 15 eksemplarer
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (1970) — Bidragyder — 13 eksemplarer
The Best Short Stories of 1939 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1939) — Bidragyder — 6 eksemplarer
Moderne Amerikaanse verhalen — Bidragyder — 3 eksemplarer
Fifty Years of the American Short Story: from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (Volume I) (1970) — Bidragyder — 3 eksemplarer
Vader is de beste — Forfatter — 3 eksemplarer
32 Współczesne Opowiadania Amerykańskie - Tom I — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
The Human Commitment - An Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
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Almen Viden
- Juridisk navn
- Cheever, John William
- Fødselsdato
- 1912-05-27
- Dødsdag
- 1982-06-18
- Begravelsessted
- First Parish Cemetery, Norwell, Massachusetts, USA
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Quincy, Massachusetts, USA
- Dødssted
- Ossining, New York, USA
- Dødsårsag
- cancer
- Bopæl
- Wollaston, Massachusetts, USA
New York, New York, USA
Boston, Massachusetts, USA - Uddannelse
- Quincy High School
Thayer Academy - Erhverv
- short-story writer
novelist - Relationer
- Cheever, Susan (daughter)
Cheever, Benjamin (son)
Bellow, Saul (friend)
Young, Florence Liley (aunt)
Cheever, Federico (son) - Organisationer
- National Institute of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1957)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1973) - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1956)
National Medal for Literature (1982)
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1979)
Edward MacDowell Medal (1979)
National Book Award (1958, 1981) - Agent
- William Loverd
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- Sprog
- 18
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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;