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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Glad Tidings: A Friendship in Letters : The Correspondence of John Cheever and John D. Weaver, 1945-1982 (1993) 16 exemplar
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Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Cheever, John William
- Födelsedag
- 1912-05-27
- Avled
- 1982-06-18
- Begravningsplats
- First Parish Cemetery, Norwell, Massachusetts, USA
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Quincy, Massachusetts, USA
- Dödsort
- Ossining, New York, USA
- Dödsorsak
- cancer
- Bostadsorter
- Wollaston, Massachusetts, USA
New York, New York, USA
Boston, Massachusetts, USA - Utbildning
- Quincy High School
Thayer Academy - Yrken
- short-story writer
novelist - Relationer
- Cheever, Susan (daughter)
Cheever, Benjamin (son)
Bellow, Saul (friend)
Young, Florence Liley (aunt)
Cheever, Federico (son) - Organisationer
- National Institute of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1957)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1973) - Priser och utmärkelser
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1956)
National Medal for Literature (1982)
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1979)
Edward MacDowell Medal (1979)
National Book Award (1958, 1981) - Agent
- William Loverd
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- Medlemmar
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- #2,288
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- ISBN
- 374
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- Favoritmärkt
- 40
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;