John Cheever nació el 27 de mayo de 1912 en Quincy, Massachusetts, Estados Unidos. Su primer libro de cuentos, The way some people live, fue publicado en 1943 y tuvo críticas y comentarios diversos. En 1969, año en que se publicó Bullet Park, recibió una crítica despiadada por parte de Benjamin De Mott, en la tapa del The New York Times Book Review. Después de eso, Cheever recayó en el alcoholismo y la depresión. En 1979, su colección Cuentos de John Cheever ganó un Premio Pulitzer para ficción, y el premio del Círculo nacional de críticos de libros. En 1987, la viuda de John Cheever, Mary, decidió firmar contrato con una pequeña editorial estadounidense, Academy Chicago, para publicar trece cuentos que permanecían inéditos, y que el propio Cheever había titulado Fall River and other uncollected stories. Cheever murió en Ossining, Nueva York, el 18 de junio de 1982.
21 Ebooks by John Cheever
John Durham Peters & Peter Simonson: Mass Communication and American Social Thought
This anthology of hard-to-find primary documents provides a solid overview of the foundations of American media studies. Focusing on mass communication and society and how this research fits into lar …
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John Cheever: El hombre al que amó y otros cuentos dispersos
El hombre al que amó y otros cuentos dispersos reúne 13 relatos hechos por Cheever en los años treinta y cuarenta (época de la Gran Depresión), que quizás para los conocedores de su obra tengan una v …
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John Cheever: Wapshot Scandal
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVE EGGERSOnce upon a time the Wapshots of St. Botolphs were distinguished for their unshakeable good opinion of themselves. But the family members have drifted far from thei …
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John Cheever: Bullet Park
Eliot Nailles loves his wife and son to distraction; Paul Hammer is a bastard named after a common household tool. Neighbours in Bullet Park, the two become fatefully linked by the mysterious binding …
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John Cheever: Collected Stories
John Cheever s Collected Stories explores the delicate psychological frameworks of 20th century suburbia.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HANIF KUREISHIThis outstanding collection by Pulitzer Prize-winning no …
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John Cheever: Oh What A Paradise It Seems
In an idyllic American village, elderly romantic Lemuel Sears still has it in him to fall wildly in love with strangers of both sexes. But Sears’s paradise is under threat; the pond he loves is being …
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John Cheever: Wapshot Chronicle
Meet the Wapshots of St Botolphs. There is Captain Leander Wapshot, venerable sea-dog and would-be suicide; his licentious older son, Moses; and Moses’s adoring and errant younger brother, Coverly. T …
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John Cheever: Letters of John Cheever
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAY MCINERNEYJohn Cheever’s letters offer a tantalising glimpse into the life of a writer. They include correspondence with his contemporaries, such as Philip Roth, John Updik …
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John Cheever: Journals
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 als …
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John Cheever: Falconer
Discover John Cheever s quirky psychological novel that is the perfect book club read.Ezekiel Farragut is a college professor, a drug-addict and a murderer. Locked in Falconer State Penitentiary, he …
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John Cheever: Drinking
What s the worst another drink could do? John Cheever pours out our most sociable of vices, and hands it to us in a highball. From the calculating teenager who raids her parents liquor cabinet, only …
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John Cheever: Vision of the World
Selected and Introduced by Booker-Prize winner Julian Barnes’Reading Cheever is a restless pleasure, the work never settles: these brilliant stories make me get up and walk around the room’ Anne Enri …
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John Cheever: Fall River
La primera edición en inglés de Fall River. Trece cuentos no reunidos fue publicada en 1994 por Academy Chicago Publishers. Los trece cuentos incluidos constituyen la fuente más importante para acced …
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