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Cheever: A Life
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John Cheever spent much of his career impersonating a perfect suburban gentleman, the better to become one of the foremost chroniclers of postwar America. Written with unprecedented access to essential...
Home Before Dark: A Personal Memoir Of John Cheever By His Daughter
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Author: Susan CheeverBinding: HardbackPublished: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Dust jacket price clippedThis intimate memoir, "Home Before Dark," chronicles the complex life and...
Cheever: a Life
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For the first time: the full and unforgettable life of John Cheever (1912-1982), written with unprecedented access to essential sources--including Cheever's massive journal, only a fraction of which has ever...
Letters of Note: Sex
In Letters of Note: Sex , Shaun Usher collects together some of the most noteworthy missives ever written on the subject, from euphemism-laden, flirtatious exchanges and desire-driven expressions of passion...
Letters of Note: Cats
In Letters of Note: Cats , Shaun Usher collects together the most engaging missives that celebrate, eulogise, rail against and analyse the idiosyncratic ways of our feline companions. James Joyce,...
New Granta Book of the American Short Story
Richard Ford, who is among the very finest of American novelists and story writers, edited and introduced the first Granta Book of the American Short Story, which Granta published in...
The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath
Addiction is seemingly inexplicable. From the outside, it can look like wilful, arrogant self-destruction; from the inside, it can feel as inevitable and insistent as a heartbeat. It is possible...
The Stories of John Cheever (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER * NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A seminal collection from one of the true masters of the short story. Spanning the duration of Cheever's long and distinguished career, these...
E. E. Cummings: A Life
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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, and playwright considered...
Fires
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New Ways to Kill Your Mother
In his essay on the "Notebooks" of Tennessee Williams, Colm Toibin reveals an artist "alone and deeply fearful and unusually selfish" and one profoundly tormented by his sister's mental illness....
It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future
The great writer's brilliant, blistering essay collection, chronicling how America--so great, so accomplished, so magical--began destroying its soul "Sentence by sentence, page by page, Bellow is simply the best writer...
The Oxford Book of Travel Stories
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Writers: Photographs by Nancy Crampton
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The New Penguin Book of American Short Stories, from Washington Irving
The short story is one of the most varied and exciting genres in American literature. This collection brings together many of its finest examples from the early nineteenth century to...
Sleep
'Beautiful ... incredibly moving' ANN PATCHETT 'Deeply satisfying ... beautifully written' POLLY SAMSON 'Exceptionally moving' NEW YORK TIMES 'Magnetic, breathtaking' CHERIE JONES 'Beautiful ... I adored it' CHRIS WHITAKER 'Profoundly...
New Granta Book of the American Short Story
Richard Ford, who is among the very finest of American novelists and story writers, edited and introduced the first Granta Book of the American Short Story, which Granta published in...