John Cheever



 

John Cheever

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born
May 27, 1912

died
June 18, 1982

gender
male

place of birth
Quincy, Massachusetts, United States

genre
Literature & Fiction


about this author

John Cheever was an American novelist and short story writer, sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs" or "the Ovid of Ossining." His fiction is mostly set in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the suburbs of Westchester, New York, and old New England villages based on various South Shore towns around Quincy, Massachusetts, where he was born.

His main themes include the duality of human nature: sometimes dramatized as the disparity between a character's decorous social persona and inner corruption, and sometimes as a conflict between two characters (often brothers) who embody the salient aspects of both--light and dark, flesh and spirit. Many of his works also express a nostalgia for a vanishing way of life, chara...more




books by John Cheever

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avg rating: 4.04 | 1772 ratings | 39 distinct works
The Stories of John Cheever The Stories of John Cheever (Paperback)
by John Cheever
avg rating 4.34 — 701 ratings — published 2000
12 editions
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The Wapshot Chronicle The Wapshot Chronicle (Perennial Classics)
by John Cheever
avg rating 3.79 — 236 ratings — published 2003
11 editions
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Falconer Falconer (Paperback)
by John Cheever
avg rating 3.58 — 245 ratings — published 2005
17 editions
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Bullet Park Bullet Park (Paperback)
by John Cheever
avg rating 3.79 — 117 ratings — published 2006
15 editions
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Oh What a Paradise It Seems Oh What a Paradise It Seems (Paperback)
by John Cheever
avg rating 3.76 — 87 ratings — published 1992
6 editions
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Collected Stories Collected Stories (Paperback)
by John Cheever
avg rating 4.41 — 49 ratings — published 1990
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The Wapshot Scandal The Wapshot Scandal (Perennial Classics)
by John Cheever
avg rating 3.84 — 55 ratings — published 2003
7 editions
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Cheever Reads: The Swimmer Cheever Reads: The Swimmer (Hardcover)
by John Cheever
avg rating 4.31 — 13 ratings — published 1994
5 editions
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Brigadier and the Golf Widow Brigadier and the Golf Widow (Hardcover)
by John Cheever
avg rating 4.50 — 12 ratings — published 1965
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World of Apples World of Apples (Paperback)
by John Cheever
avg rating 4.42 — 12 ratings — published 1978
3 editions
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quotes by John Cheever

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""The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness."
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John Cheever
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"Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream."
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"There is a terrible sameness to the euphoria of alcohol and the euphoria of metaphor."
John Cheever
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