John Cheever (1912–1982)
Autor(a) de The Stories of John Cheever
About the Author
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 mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos
Image credit: Photo by Nancy Crampton, courtesy of Ossining Public Library
Séries
Obras por John Cheever
Glad Tidings: A Friendship in Letters : The Correspondence of John Cheever and John D. Weaver, 1945-1982 (1993) 16 exemplares
The Day The Pig Fell Into The Well 7 exemplares
The Country Husband 5 exemplares
Torch Song 4 exemplares
The Sutton Place Story 4 exemplares
The Superintendent 3 exemplares
Selected short stories 3 exemplares
The Common Day 2 exemplares
Clancy in the Tower of Babel 2 exemplares
The Pot of Gold 2 exemplares
The Hartleys 2 exemplares
The Cure 2 exemplares
Rare John Cheever FALCONER Signed First Edition 1977 -Alfred A. Knopf [Hardcover] John Cheever 2 exemplares
Miłosna Ballada 2 exemplares
Hyvästi, veljeni : kertomuksia 2 exemplares
The Happiest Days 2 exemplares
The Summer Farmer 2 exemplares
The Bus To St. James's 2 exemplares
The Scarlet Moving Van 2 exemplares
The Wrysons 2 exemplares
The Bella Lingua 2 exemplares
“The Enormous Radio” 2 exemplares
The Worm In The Apple 2 exemplares
A Woman Without A Country 2 exemplares
Just One More Time 2 exemplares
Clementina 2 exemplares
The Children 2 exemplares
RARE 1957 JOHN CHEEVER FIRST NOVEL 1ST EDITION WAPSHOT CHRONICLE GREAT DJ [Hardcover] JOHN CHEEVER 1 exemplar
Wizja świata 1 exemplar
Frère Jacques 1 exemplar
I’m Going to Asia (Selected Short Stories) 1 exemplar
Ovo stvarno liči na raj 1 exemplar
L'età dell'oro: Tutti i racconti vol. III 1 exemplar
John Cheever Stories 1 exemplar
The City of Lost Dreams 1 exemplar
Odabrane priče 1 exemplar
Contos completos II 1 exemplar
The National Pastime 1 exemplar
The Wapshot Chronical; the Wapshot Scandel 1 exemplar
Just Tell Me Who It Was 1 exemplar
The Chimera 1 exemplar
Of love: a testimony 1 exemplar
Signs of hope 1 exemplar
The art of fiction LXII 1 exemplar
Un giorno qualsiasi (in Il nuotatore) 1 exemplar
Selected Prose 1 exemplar
The Duchess 1 exemplar
Brimmer 1 exemplar
The Golden Age 1 exemplar
The Lowboy 1 exemplar
The Music Teacher 1 exemplar
Boy In Rome 1 exemplar
The Seaside Houses 1 exemplar
Återföreningen och andra noveller Box 1 1 exemplar
The Fourth Alarm 1 exemplar
Wykształcona Amerykanka : opowiadania 1 exemplar
Cheever John 1 exemplar
Three Stories 1 exemplar
Artemis, The Honest Well Digger 1 exemplar
Percy 1 exemplar
An Educated American Woman 1 exemplar
Another Story 1 exemplar
Marito in Città 1 exemplar
The Ocean 1 exemplar
Montraldo 1 exemplar
Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin 1 exemplar
Metamorphoses 1 exemplar
Orasul visurilor spulberate 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contribuidor, algumas edições — 915 exemplares
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Contribuidor — 377 exemplares
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now (2009) — Contribuidor — 263 exemplares
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994) — Contribuidor — 183 exemplares
In Another Part of the Forest: An Anthology of Gay Short Fiction (1994) — Contribuidor — 174 exemplares
New York Stories (Everyman's Pocket Classics) (2011) — Contribuidor, algumas edições — 152 exemplares
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Contribuidor — 131 exemplares
Adaptations: From Short Story to Big Screen: 35 Great Stories That Have Inspired Great Films (2005) — Contribuidor — 121 exemplares
McSweeney's Issue 45 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Hitchcock and Bradbury Fistfight in Heaven (2013) — Contribuidor — 103 exemplares
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Expanded 10th-Anniversary Edition) (2008) — Contribuidor — 93 exemplares
Cape Cod Stories: Tales from Cape Cod, Nantucket, and Martha's Vineyard (1996) — Contribuidor — 52 exemplares
The Second Gates of Paradise: The Anthology of Erotic Short Fiction (1997) — Contribuidor — 36 exemplares
The Haves & Have Nots: 30 Stories About Money & Class In America (1999) — Contribuidor — 33 exemplares
Selected Shorts: American Classics (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story) (2010) — Contribuidor — 22 exemplares
Half-a-Hundred Stories for Men, Great Tales by American Writers (1945) — Contribuidor — 15 exemplares
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (1970) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
The Best Short Stories of 1939 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1939) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
Moderne Amerikaanse verhalen — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Fifty Years of the American Short Story: from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (Volume I) (1970) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Vader is de beste — Autor — 3 exemplares
32 Współczesne Opowiadania Amerykańskie - Tom I — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
The Human Commitment - An Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Cheever, John William
- Data de nascimento
- 1912-05-27
- Data de falecimento
- 1982-06-18
- Localização do túmulo
- First Parish Cemetery, Norwell, Massachusetts, USA
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Quincy, Massachusetts, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Ossining, New York, USA
- Causa da morte
- cancer
- Locais de residência
- Wollaston, Massachusetts, USA
New York, New York, USA
Boston, Massachusetts, USA - Educação
- Quincy High School
Thayer Academy - Ocupações
- short-story writer
novelist - Relações
- Cheever, Susan (daughter)
Cheever, Benjamin (son)
Bellow, Saul (friend)
Young, Florence Liley (aunt)
Cheever, Federico (son) - Organizações
- National Institute of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1957)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1973) - Prémios e menções honrosas
- 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) - Agente
- William Loverd
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 156
- Also by
- 87
- Membros
- 10,397
- Popularidade
- #2,288
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 129
- ISBN
- 374
- Línguas
- 18
- Marcado como favorito
- 40
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;