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  <title><![CDATA[Oh, What a Paradise It Seems]]></title>
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  <default-description>An old man falls violently in love and does valiant battle against unscrupulous polluters in John Cheever's ineffably joyful last novel.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1982</original-publication-year>
  <original-title>Oh What a Paradise It Seems</original-title>
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      <name><![CDATA[John Cheever]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2001</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I stayed up all night reading a short book by John Cheever What a Paradise It Seems which was, from what I can gather, his last.<br/><br/><em>That things had been better was the music, the reprise of his days. It had been sung by his elders, by his associates, he had heard it sung in college by Toynbe...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34011217">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Mar 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This novella has everything I like about Cheever--lovely clarity of language, a knowingness about people's inner lives and yearnings, and a slight sense of the absurd.  I also liked the unexpected environmental message.  Hurray for the Cheever revival!]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my first Cheever, and I intend to read The Falconer next, as I already have it! I love the way Cheever writes. It just flows from here to there, almost like daydreams where you drift a while, but then come back. It seems there is a lot of Cheever in his characters and I find this one kinda ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35192858">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not as good as the Stories, or even some of the earlier novels (I prefer Falconer) -<br/><br/>But if you've ever driven off and left your child in his/her carrier on the side of the road, this is the book for you.<br/><br/>That ripping sound you hear is the sound of Cheever tearing the cords tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23132023">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Sep 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A calming story of growing old, but still experimenting and hoping to make a difference.  Some strange side stories that make the story quirky and fun.<br/>(Book given to me by my friend Ruben.)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book was apparently quite rushed because Cheever was dying of cancer while writing it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This tiny book was Cheever's last. It ends with one of his classic twists.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[the best writer of effortless perfection]]></body>
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