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    <![CDATA[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 power of their names in Cheever's sharp and funny hymn to the dubious normality of the American suburbs.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[A serious, hilarious, quirky, disjointed allegory about 1960s upper-middle-class suburbs -- a spiritual story about people who have lost their connection to spirituality. Hermetic tropes include the 'magic Negro' faith-healer who lives over a funeral parlor in the slums, two alchemists with differen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49323605">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, if you want to learn the rules of how novels work, it's good to read ones that won't (or can't) play by those rules. Watching Cheever's instincts chafe against the novel form, and watching him accept that and willfully embrace the resulting weirdness, is pleasurable. It would be maybe awful if...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67240145">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've been a goodreads delinquent for some time now -- I'll admit that.  Then I read Bullet Park, and I remembered how wonderful Cheever's novels could be, and I had to share it, so here I am, returned, prodigal, and feeling creatively refreshed by the twin geniuses of Paul Hammer and Elliot Nailles....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41795604">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Jeeeez. What can you say about this? Well, a while ago I read the John Cheever short story &quot;The Death of Justina&quot; for an otherwise very sub-par American Lit class, and decided that it was absolutely the best thing we read all quarter. Then I read Falconer and didn't really find that it had...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32901682">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've been meaning to read Cheever all my adult life, but didn't expect to like him -- suburban malaise is not a subject I need to spend a lot more time exploring.  <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Bullet Park" title=" Bullet Park"> Bullet Park</a> just goes to show that subject matter has little bearing on your enjoyment when the author is capital-G Great.  This book i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6601836">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It's not common that I take recommendations for reading from psychiatrists, but this was an exception. The story about the upper-middle-class Nailles who manages to survive what initially looks like a &quot;neighborly&quot; encounter with Mr. Hammer, is compelling even if you're not upper-middle-cla...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3739885">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Cheever's legendary novel wavers between brilliance and an unfocused flakiness (especially during the Hammer section)with a fairly explosive ending that I liked quite a bit. Perhaps the flakiness in the Hammer section was intentional in proving what a directionless bastard he was, but it still makes...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80890223">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[When I read this book 30 years ago, the elegant style was enough to get me to the end. Today, the style seems just as elegant, but after 40 pages I realized that I had no interest in the fate of these characters. The style was not enough, and at times seemed self-indulgent--when Cheever was wound up...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56466688">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a fantastic take on life in the suburbs between two unlikely men who Mr. Hammer &amp; Mr. Nailles, who become intertwined when one decides the answer is his problems is the other.  Really, the exciting and stimulating parts of this book, and most of Cheever's writing/storytelling has to do with...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76421993">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A dystopian view of what many Americans strived for in the 60's: a superficially happy and calm life in the suburbs.  This book (the first of Cheever's that I have read) reminds me strongly of Updike's Rabbit series.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A clever and funny picture of the early assault on mid-century American suburbia by the cultural freight train of the 1960s.  Memorable characters and some great vignettes, but plot was a little thin.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Eliot Nailles and Paul Hammer meet, presumably by chance, on Sunday at church in Bullet Park. Nailles is open, no secrets. Hammer is, dangerously for him, not what he seems.  <p>The third crucial character, Tony Nailles, is the one who holds the bag. How he got into it and how in the nick of time he appears to get out is the crux of this tale.</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent. One of the more unusual books I've stumbled across recently. Cheever paints a scary and hilarious portrait of suburban america.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Eliot Nailles and Paul Hammer meet, presumably by chance, on Sunday at church in Bullet Park. Nailles is open, no secrets. Hammer is, dangerously for him, not what he seems.  <p>The third crucial character, Tony Nailles, is the one who holds the bag. How he got into it and how in the nick of time he appears to get out is the crux of this tale.</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've never read Cheever before.  Very impressive.  A style that veers from close to mundane to close to stream of consciousness in the space of a few sentences.  I found that book absorbing and was awed by the writing.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I heard that Mad Men was influenced by this book (or maybe just Cheever in general)  - enough said!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My teacher encouraged me to read this in school, I did, and was pretty dissapointed.<br/><br/>His short stories are excellent, but it doesn't seem to me that he's got what it takes to sustain a full novel.  THe narrative pretty much runs out after the first half or so.<br/><br/>Suburban gothic h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29811732">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book actually scared me since I was so concerned that the protagonist would achieve his quest destroy the family in question.  Once again, this is right up the alley for those who like to look at the dark side and explore it.  It is full of tormented characters and an intense story line.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh my, I love John Cheever.  Blake Bailey's biography of him is my most anticipated book of 2009.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Much prefer the excellent Wapshot books to this one.  Good Jawbox song, though.]]></body>
    
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