Author
Bailey, Blake.
Title
Cheever : a life / Blake Bailey.
Edition
1st ed.
Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
Format
Book
Description
x, 770 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Gen. note
"This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Abstract
John Cheever (1912-1982) 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 sources--including Cheever’s massive journal, only a fraction of which has been published--Blake Bailey’s biography reveals the troubled but strangely lovable man behind the disguises, an artist who delighted in the everyday radiance of the world while yearning, above all, "to be illustrious." Cheever’s was a soul in conflict: a proud Yankee who flaunted his lineage while deploring the provincialism of his Massachusetts family; a high-school dropout who published his first story at eighteen; a pioneer of suburban realist fiction who continually pushed the boundaries of realism; a dire alcoholic who recovered to write the great novel Falconer; a secret bisexual who struggled with his longings and his fierce homophobia in a revolving door of self-loathing and hedonism.--From publisher description.
ISBN
9781400043941
1400043948
Per.Sub.
Cheever, John.
Subject
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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