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John Cheever (1912–1982)

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John Cheever, best known for his short stories dealing with upper-middle-class suburban life, was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1912. Cheever published his first short story at the age of 17, and in 1979, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his collected edition of short stories, titled Stories of visa mer John Cheever. Cheever also wrote screenplays, and five novels, including The Wapshot Chronicle, which won the National Book Award in 1957. Cheever died in 1982, at the age of 70. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Verk av John Cheever

Falconer (1977) 1,396 exemplar
Villastaden (1969) 716 exemplar
The Wapshot Scandal (1964) 551 exemplar
Oh What a Paradise It Seems (1982) 504 exemplar
The Journals of John Cheever (1991) 408 exemplar
The Letters of John Cheever (1988) 185 exemplar
The World of Apples: Stories (1973) — Författare — 146 exemplar
The Swimmer (1994) 74 exemplar
La geometria del amor (1998) 33 exemplar
Cuentos (2012) 28 exemplar
Il nuotatore (1982) 26 exemplar
Vintage Cheever (2005) 25 exemplar
Fall River e altri racconti (2011) 21 exemplar
The World of Apples {story} (1973) 21 exemplar
Drinking: Vintage Minis (2017) 21 exemplar
Relatos 1 (2006) 17 exemplar
Contes (2007) 15 exemplar
Relatos 2 (2006) 15 exemplar
Stories (1956) 15 exemplar
L'Ange sur le pont (1987) 12 exemplar
I racconti (2012) 11 exemplar
The Uncollected Stories of John Cheever (1988) — Författare — 10 exemplar
Déjeuner de famille (2007) 10 exemplar
O Youth And Beauty! (1996) 9 exemplar
A Vision of the World (2021) 8 exemplar
Simmaren : noveller (2019) 7 exemplar
Goodbye, My Brother (1987) 7 exemplar
The Way Some People Live (1943) 7 exemplar
Ballata (2001) 6 exemplar
Cuentos completos (2009) 5 exemplar
The Five-Forty-Eight (2009) 5 exemplar
Fall River (2010) 5 exemplar
Diarios (2006) 5 exemplar
Torch Song 4 exemplar
L'homme de ses rêves (2011) 3 exemplar
The Superintendent 3 exemplar
The Jewels Of The Cabots (2009) 3 exemplar
The Trouble Of Marcie Flint (1997) 3 exemplar
The Common Day 2 exemplar
The Chaste Clarissa (2009) 2 exemplar
The Pot of Gold 2 exemplar
The Hartleys 2 exemplar
Atlantic crossing (1986) 2 exemplar
The Cure 2 exemplar
Racconti italiani (2009) 2 exemplar
Miłosna Ballada 2 exemplar
The Happiest Days 2 exemplar
Wapshot, Los (2014) 2 exemplar
The Summer Farmer 2 exemplar
The Wrysons 2 exemplar
The Bella Lingua 2 exemplar
The Season Of Divorce (2009) 2 exemplar
Just One More Time 2 exemplar
Clementina 2 exemplar
The Sorrows Of Gin (2002) 2 exemplar
The Children 2 exemplar
Birra scura e cipolle dolci (2017) 1 exemplar
Wizja świata 1 exemplar
Frère Jacques 1 exemplar
El nedador (2023) 1 exemplar
Le lettere (2015) 1 exemplar
Odabrane priče 1 exemplar
Una visione del mondo (2021) 1 exemplar
Toplu Öyküler (2022) 1 exemplar
Six Decades At Yaddo (1986) 1 exemplar
The Chimera 1 exemplar
Signs of hope 1 exemplar
Marken i eplet : noveller (1980) 1 exemplar
Selected Prose 1 exemplar
The Duchess 1 exemplar
Brimmer 1 exemplar
The Golden Age 1 exemplar
The Lowboy 1 exemplar
The Music Teacher 1 exemplar
The Death of Justina (2009) 1 exemplar
Boy In Rome 1 exemplar
The Seaside Houses 1 exemplar
The Fourth Alarm 1 exemplar
Cheever John 1 exemplar
Three Stories 1 exemplar
Percy 1 exemplar
Another Story 1 exemplar
Marito in Città 1 exemplar
The Ocean 1 exemplar
Montraldo 1 exemplar
Metamorphoses 1 exemplar

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Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Bidragsgivare, vissa utgåvor915 exemplar
The Oxford Book of American Short Stories (1992) — Bidragsgivare — 743 exemplar
Short Story Masterpieces (1954) — Bidragsgivare — 675 exemplar
Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink (2007) — Bidragsgivare — 535 exemplar
In the Stacks: Short Stories about Libraries and Librarians (2002) — Bidragsgivare — 531 exemplar
The Oxford Book of Short Stories (1981) — Bidragsgivare — 510 exemplar
The World of the Short Story: A 20th Century Collection (1986) — Bidragsgivare — 461 exemplar
American Gothic Tales (1996) — Bidragsgivare — 457 exemplar
Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow (1952) — Bidragsgivare — 435 exemplar
Fifty Great American Short Stories (1965) — Bidragsgivare — 430 exemplar
Points of View: Revised Edition (1966) — Bidragsgivare — 411 exemplar
The Granta Book of the American Short Story (1992) — Bidragsgivare — 368 exemplar
Sudden Fiction: American Short-Short Stories (1984) — Bidragsgivare — 362 exemplar
Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker (2000) — Bidragsgivare — 354 exemplar
The Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories (1994) — Bidragsgivare — 317 exemplar
The Best of Modern Humor (1983) — Bidragsgivare — 291 exemplar
100 Years of the Best American Short Stories (2015) — Bidragsgivare — 282 exemplar
The 40s: The Story of a Decade (2014) — Bidragsgivare — 275 exemplar
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (1998) — Bidragsgivare — 275 exemplar
The Treasury of American Short Stories (1981) — Bidragsgivare — 267 exemplar
The New Granta Book of the American Short Story (2007) — Bidragsgivare — 211 exemplar
Short Stories from The New Yorker, 1925 to 1940 (1940) — Bidragsgivare — 201 exemplar
Nothing But You: Love Stories From The New Yorker (1997) — Bidragsgivare — 186 exemplar
In Another Part of the Forest: An Anthology of Gay Short Fiction (1994) — Bidragsgivare — 174 exemplar
New York Stories (Everyman's Pocket Classics) (2011) — Bidragsgivare, vissa utgåvor152 exemplar
Murder & Other Acts of Literature (1997) — Bidragsgivare — 147 exemplar
Magical Realist Fiction: An Anthology (1984) — Bidragsgivare — 111 exemplar
American Short Stories (1976) — Bidragsgivare, vissa utgåvor95 exemplar
American Fantastic Tales: Boxed Set (2009) — Bidragsgivare — 92 exemplar
Blood Thirst: 100 Years of Vampire Fiction (1997) — Bidragsgivare — 85 exemplar
Stories from The New Yorker, 1950 to 1960 (1958) — Bidragsgivare — 80 exemplar
The Oxford Book of Travel Stories (1996) — Bidragsgivare — 74 exemplar
The Ecco Book of Christmas Stories (2005) — Bidragsgivare — 73 exemplar
Great Esquire Fiction (1983) — Bidragsgivare — 70 exemplar
Ross Macdonald Selects Great Stories of Suspense (1974) — Bidragsgivare — 69 exemplar
200 Years of Great American Short Stories (1975) — Bidragsgivare — 68 exemplar
Nightshade: 20th Century Ghost Stories (1999) — Bidragsgivare — 64 exemplar
55 Short Stories from The New Yorker, 1940 to 1950 (1949) — Bidragsgivare — 60 exemplar
The Norton Book Of Ghost Stories (1994) — Bidragsgivare — 49 exemplar
Reel Terror (1992) — Bidragsgivare — 48 exemplar
Urban Horrors (1941) — Bidragsgivare — 40 exemplar
Fifty Best American Short Stories 1915-1965 (1965) — Bidragsgivare — 36 exemplar
Round the Christmas Fire: Festive Stories (2013) — Bidragsgivare — 34 exemplar
Beach : Stories by the Sand and Sea (2000) — Bidragsgivare — 32 exemplar
Stories To Get You Through The Night (2010) — Bidragsgivare — 32 exemplar
The Swimmer [1968 film] (1968) — Original book — 30 exemplar
Great Short Stories of the World (1965) — Bidragsgivare — 25 exemplar
The Best American Short Stories 1973 (1973) — Bidragsgivare — 23 exemplar
Studies in Fiction (1965) — Bidragsgivare — 22 exemplar
The Best American Short Stories 1963 (1963) — Bidragsgivare — 19 exemplar
The Best American Short Stories 1977 (1977) — Bidragsgivare — 15 exemplar
Half-a-Hundred Stories for Men, Great Tales by American Writers (1945) — Bidragsgivare — 15 exemplar
Family: Stories from the Interior (1987) — Bidragsgivare — 15 exemplar
The Best American Short Stories 1959 (1959) — Bidragsgivare — 13 exemplar
Twenty-Nine Stories (1960) — Bidragsgivare — 13 exemplar
The Best American Short Stories 1955 (1955) — Bidragsgivare — 13 exemplar
31 Stories (1960) — Bidragsgivare — 12 exemplar
The Playboy Book of Short Stories (1995) — Bidragsgivare — 11 exemplar
The Best American Short Stories 1943 (1943) — Bidragsgivare — 11 exemplar
The best of the Best American short stories, 1915-1950 (1975) — Bidragsgivare — 10 exemplar
A Vintage Christmas (Vintage Minis) (2018) — Bidragsgivare — 9 exemplar
The Best American Short Stories 1951 (1951) — Bidragsgivare — 6 exemplar
The Best American Short Stories 1948 (1948) — Bidragsgivare — 5 exemplar
Huivering wekken : 26 onthutsende verhalen (1982) — Bidragsgivare — 4 exemplar
Moderne Amerikaanse verhalen — Bidragsgivare — 3 exemplar
Vader is de beste — Författare — 3 exemplar
Short Fiction: Shape and Substance (1971) — Bidragsgivare — 3 exemplar
Enjoying Stories (1987) — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
32 Współczesne Opowiadania Amerykańskie - Tom I — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Stories of Sudden Truth (1953) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar

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John Cheever's Falconer is one of those books you wonder what the author's intent was in writing it. Its protagonist, Ezekiel Farragut, is an inmate in the eponymous prison, incarcerated for the murder of his brother, Eben. In prison, he is mostly just his surname, occasionally his convict number. Only when he interacts with his family is he referred to by his Christian name.

Very little about Farragut is relatable or likeable. He is an opium addict. His marriage, even before his crime, is troubled, mostly as the result of his own behavior. Despite a lifetime of heterosexuality, he easily slides into homosexual acts with other prisoners, going so far as to fall in love with one. The overabundance of Farragut's homosexual behavior dominates much of the book, reminding me of the repetitive non-sequiturs in Breakfast of Champions about various characters' dick sizes.

Near the end of the book, we learn the circumstances of Farragut's crime; interestingly, this is when Cheever most comes across as an unreliable third-person narrator. Farragut verbally claims to have struck his brother but once; at trial, his brother is shown to have suffered repeated blows. Cheever never reconciles the two accounts, nor does he clarify or contradict other significant details pertaining to the murder as told by Farragut.

Falconer ends rather than concludes, and when it does, I'm unclear what I'm supposed to think of Farragut and his uncertain future. Given the Biblical origin of his name, the novel might be interpreted as a modern recreation of prophecies of Ezekiel. Farragut's imprisonment represents the Jewish exile to Babylon; the riot at another prison, Amana, the destruction of Jerusalem; Farragut's ultimate escape and rejoicing, the Jews' restoration to the land of Israel. Cheever's allegory—if that's what Falconer is—portrays them as the actions of criminals and degenerates, leaving the book's meaning difficult to comprehend.
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skavlanj | 18 andra recensioner | Jan 27, 2024 |
Nothing in particular happens in this book, but it kept me interested enough to keep turning pages until the end.
 
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blueskygreentrees | 18 andra recensioner | Jul 30, 2023 |
 
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Alvaritogn | 18 andra recensioner | Jul 16, 2023 |
Esto parece el paraíso es la fábula más inteligente, mágica y encantadora de John Cheever. No exenta de toques realistas, supone la vuelta del autor a una visión de la vida contemporánea más alegre y esperanzada, tras sus novelas y cuentos que examinaban el fracaso del sueño americano. Esto parece el paraíso es el brillante colofón a una de las carreras literarias más importantes del siglo XX.
El protagonista de esta historia es Lemuel Sears, un hombre elegante, de pelo blanco y piel morena que empieza a sentirse viejo. Teme estar llegando al final de su vida y perder así la capacidad de enamorarse, capacidad que ejerce con personas de ambos sexos. Pero en el curso de pocos días, dos acontecimientos cambiarán su destino: el primero es conocer a Renée, una joven de la que se enamora perdidamente, y el segundo es la lucha que debe emprender contra la gente que ha contaminado la laguna de su pueblo, un atropello a la placidez del paisaje y también a la continuidad de su existencia.… (mer)
 
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Verk
156
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Medlemmar
10,397
Popularitet
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Betyg
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Recensioner
129
ISBN
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Språk
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