The Journals

Informationen zum Autor John Cheever was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1912, and he went to school at Thayer Academy in South Braintree. 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 he 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. Klappentext John Cheever's journals reveal the inner life of this remarkable writer and the contradictions that drove him. He loved his wife and their children, but was acutely lonely; he loved women, but he also loved men; he was a great writer, but one whose acute levels of perception often crippled him as a person. Zusammenfassung John Cheever's journals reveal the inner life of this remarkable writer and the contradictions that drove him. He loved his wife and their children, but was acutely lonely; he loved women, but he also loved men; he was a great writer, but one whose acute levels of perception often crippled him as a person.

Product details

• Authors: John Cheever
• Assisted by: Geoff Dyer (Introduction), Dyer Geoff (Introduction)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.12.2009
• EAN: 9780099529538
• ISBN: 978-0-09-952953-8
• No. of pages: 560
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 35 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics; VINTAGE CLASSICS
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Diaries, letters & journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Diaries, letters and journals, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000