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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Stunning and brutally powerful, "one of the most important novels of our time" (The New York Times) tells the story o...
"Heartrending...Can be read as a writer's notebook, a family chronicle, a brutally honest autobiography, and almost as an unfinished novel...A daring ...
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAY MCINERNEY John Cheever's letters offer a tantalising glimpse into the life of a writer. They include correspondence with h...
"A luminous epiphany of life . . . engaging and complex . . . vivid and alive".--Washington Post Book World. An old man falls madly in love and does v...
In Home Before Dark, Susan Cheever, daughter of the famously talented writer John Cheever, uses previously unpublished letters, journals, and her own ...
A collection of humorous stories by the American writer focusing on the volume, inhibitions, and dreams of man....
In a nightmarish prison a convict named Farragut--a professor, drug addict, and a fratricide--struggles to remain a man. "One of the most important no...
John Cheever’s stories rank among the finest achievements of twentieth-century short fiction. Ensnared by the trappings of affluence, adrift in the ...
From one of the greatest writers of the 20th century—the darkly comic yet deeply compassionate sequel to the National Book Award–winning novel, Th...
A Novel
Welcome to Bullet Park, a township in which even the most buttoned-down gentry sometimes manage to terrify themselves simply by looking in the mirror....
The Wapshot Chronicle / The Wapshot Scandal / Bullet Park / Falconer / Oh What a Paradise It Seems
Published to coincide with editor Blake Bailey's groundbreaking new biography, here are the five novels of John Cheever, together in one volume for th...
When The Wapshot Chronicle was published in 1957, John Cheever was already recognized as a writer of superb short stories. But The Wapshot Chronicle, ...
A Personal Biography
Examines the life of Louisa May Alcott, discussing her family, relationships, works, rejection of marriage, and other related topics....
Born into a world ruled and defined by the cocktail hour, in which the solution to any problem could be found in a dry martini or another glass of win...
To express his growing frustration, a diet book editor whose attempts to lose weight have all failed begins to write angry letters to companies that h...
With an introduction by Ge. B. Cheever
A Life
From the author of American Bloomsbury, Louisa May Alcott, and Home Before Dark, a major reassessment of the life and work of the novelist, painter, a...
A New Play Based on the Stories of John Cheever
THE STORY: John Cheever, master chronicler of America's post-war angst and alienation, and how it affected a burgeoning suburban class, left a storeho...
The Story of an Ordinary American and Her Extraordinary Generation
As Developed in the Biography of Nathaniel Cheever, M. D.
An Elementary Grammar, for Beginners in the Study of the Latin Language
Imagine yourself on a real 1980 Schwinn Traveler bicycle. No pedaling required in this coming of age novel where the characters encounter Adventure, R...
And of His Wife, Elizabeth Wetmore Cheever; in Verse and Prose
Bill Wilson : His Life and the Creation of Alcoholics Anonymous
In this thoroughly researched and groundbreaking biography of Bill Wilson, cofounder of Alcoholics Anonymous, acclaimed author Susan Cheever creates a...
By John Cheever
The Canonical Models and Theological Visions of the Devī-Bhāgavata Purāna
The authors of the Devī-Bhāgavata Purāna endeavored to demonstrate the superiority of the Devī over competing masculine deities, and to articulate...
Our Secret History
In Drinking in America, bestselling author Susan Cheever chronicles our national love affair with liquor, taking a long, thoughtful look at the way al...
The Song of the Goddess: A Translation, Annotation, and Commentary
This translation and commentary on an important Hindu text on the Great Goddess envisions a universe created and protected by a compassionate female d...
A Memoir About Raising Wonderful Children in an Imperfect World
In this compelling companion volume to her acclaimed memoir Home Before Dark, Susan Cheever once again gives readers a revealing look into her famous ...
And the Church's Stewardship, As Invested with Them... . by George B. Cheever
Harriet Anna Cheever wrote this popular book that continues to be widely read today despite its age....
The Whale and His Captors is an important firsthand account of the golden age of American whaling, chronicling both its lore and science as practiced ...