Biographie et livres de John Cheever

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Écrivain américain, né en 1912 et mort en 1982, John Cheever est surnommé le 'Tchekhov des banlieues'. Il s'est attaché à dépeindre cette middle class sans histoire, quand ses contemporains préféraient décrire la classe ouvrière (Dos Passos, Steinbeck) ou les individus les plus riches (Fitzgerald). Au-delà de la condition sociale de ses personnages, tiraillés entre carcan de la norme et désarroi existentiel, le fondateur de l'école dite du New Yorker a imposé sa vision douce-amère du monde,

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A Vision of the World

John Cheever

Vintage Digital

2021-05-27

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Selected and Introduced by Booker-Prize winner Julian Barnes'Reading Cheever is a restless pleasure, the work never settles: these brilliant stories make me get up and walk around the room' Anne Enright John Cheever - the 'Chekhov of the suburbs' -...

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Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Drinking John Cheever What’s the worst another drink could do? John Cheever pours out our most sociable of vices, and hands it to us in a highball. From the calculating teenager who raids her parents’ liquor cabinet, only to drown her sorrows in it, to the suburban swimmer withering away... Editeur : Vintage Digital Parution : 2017-06-08 ePub 5,49 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Falconer John Cheever Discover John Cheever’s quirky psychological novel that is the perfect book club read.Ezekiel Farragut is a college professor, a drug-addict and a murderer. Locked in Falconer State Penitentiary, he struggles through tormenting visits from his wife, the burden of memory... Editeur : Vintage Digital Parution : 2014-12-04 ePub 8,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Letters Of John Cheever John Cheever WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAY MCINERNEYJohn Cheever's letters offer a tantalising glimpse into the life of a writer. They include correspondence with his contemporaries, such as Philip Roth, John Updike and Saul Bellow, his days as a young, aspiring writer and his battles... Editeur : Vintage Digital Parution : 2011-04-05 ePub 12,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Journals John Cheever John Cheever's journals reveal the inner life of this remarkable writer and the contradictions that drove him. He loved his wife and their children, but was acutely lonely; he loved women, but he also loved men; he hated himself for his drinking, but for much of his... Editeur : Vintage Digital Parution : 2011-03-31 ePub 10,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Wapshot Scandal John Cheever WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVE EGGERSOnce upon a time the Wapshots of St. Botolphs were distinguished for their unshakeable good opinion of themselves. But the family members have drifted far from their New England village - and into the demented caprices of the mighty,... Editeur : Vintage Digital Parution : 2010-12-23 ePub 8,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Bullet Park John Cheever Eliot Nailles loves his wife and son to distraction; Paul Hammer is a bastard named after a common household tool. Neighbours in Bullet Park, the two become fatefully linked by the mysterious binding power of their names in Cheever's sharp and funny hymn to the dubious... Editeur : Vintage Digital Parution : 2010-12-23 ePub 8,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Wapshot Chronicle John Cheever Meet the Wapshots of St Botolphs. There is Captain Leander Wapshot, venerable sea-dog and would-be suicide; his licentious older son, Moses; and Moses's adoring and errant younger brother, Coverly. Tragic and funny, ribald and splendidly picaresque, and partly based on... Editeur : Vintage Digital Parution : 2010-12-23 ePub 8,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Oh What A Paradise It Seems John Cheever In an idyllic American village, elderly romantic Lemuel Sears still has it in him to fall wildly in love with strangers of both sexes. But Sears's paradise is under threat; the pond he loves is being fouled by unscrupulous polluters involved in organised crime. Can... Editeur : Vintage Digital Parution : 2010-12-23 ePub 8,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Collected Stories John Cheever John Cheever’s Collected Stories explores the delicate psychological frameworks of 20th century suburbia.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HANIF KUREISHIThis outstanding collection by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelistJohn Cheever shows the power and range of one of the finest short... Editeur : Vintage Digital Parution : 2010-09-07 ePub 8,99 €

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