Cheever: A Life - Couverture rigide

Bailey, Blake

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0330437909 ISBN 13 : 9780330437905

Editeur : Picador, 2009

Synopsis

John Cheever was one of the foremost chroniclers of post-war America, a peerless writer who on his death in 1982 left not only some of the best short stories of the twentieth century and a number of highly acclaimed novels, but also a private journal that runs to an astonishing four million words.

Cheever’s was a soul in conflictm who hid his troubles - alcoholism, secret bisexuality - behind the screen of genial life in suburbia, but as John Updike came to remark: `Only he saw in its cocktail parties and swimming pools the shimmer of dissolving dreams . . .’

Blake Bailey, writing with unprecedented access to the journal and other sources, has brought characteristic eloquence and sensitivity to his interpretation of Cheever’s life and work. This is a luminous biography that reveals – behind the disguises with which he faced the world – a troubled but strangely lovable man, and a writer of timeless fiction.

`Stunningly detailed . . . Even more eloquent and resourceful than Bailey’s celebrated biography of Richard Yates, A Tragic Honesty . . . Bailey’s interweaving of Cheever’s fiction with his experience is a tour de force’ New York Times Book Review

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Blake Bailey is the author of the highly acclaimed biography of Richard Yates, A Tragic Honesty, which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award. He is the editor of John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Picador
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0330437909
• ISBN 13: 9780330437905
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 784
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible