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John Cheever
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born
May 27, 1912
died
June 18, 1982
gender
male
place of birth
Quincy, Massachusetts, The United States
genre
Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, Gay & Lesbian
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 lif...more
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The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever avg rating 4.31 — 1,136 ratings — published 1978 16 editions |
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The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever avg rating 3.70 — 421 ratings — published 1957 15 editions |
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Falconer by John Cheever avg rating 3.53 — 412 ratings — published 1977 19 editions |
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Bullet Park by John Cheever avg rating 3.82 — 207 ratings — published 1969 16 editions |
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Oh What a Paradise It Seems by John Cheever avg rating 3.74 — 138 ratings — published 1982 6 editions |
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The Wapshot Scandal by John Cheever avg rating 3.73 — 97 ratings — published 1989 10 editions |
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The Enormous Radio by John Cheever avg rating 4.10 — 31 ratings — published 1953 2 editions |
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World of Apples by John Cheever avg rating 3.86 — 28 ratings — published 1973 3 editions |
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Cheever Reads: The Swimmer by John Cheever avg rating 4.32 — 22 ratings — published 1986 5 editions |
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John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings by John Cheever avg rating 4.32 — 19 ratings — published 2009 |
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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."
— John Cheever
— John Cheever
"All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life"
— John Cheever
— John Cheever
""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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— John Cheever
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