Cheever

Summary

National Book Critics Circle Award, Biography, 2010Here, for the first time, is the full and unforgettable life of John Cheever, written with unprecedented access to essential sources.Cheever was a soul in conflict, a high-school dropout who published his first story at 18, a dire alcoholic who recovered to write the great novel Falconer, a secret bisexual who struggled with his longings and his fierce homophobia, whose groundbreaking work landed him on the covers of Time and Newsweek, a man who believed in the power of family love and sexual pleasure, a man whose desperate loneliness was never wholly offset by his faith in the joy of creation.

©2009 Blake Bailey (P)2009 Blackstone Audio, Inc.