The Journals

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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 life was dependent upon it; he was a great writer, but one whose acute levels of perception often crippled him as a person. His journals are candid, beautiful and often startling.

Additional information

Weight 0.385 kg
Dimensions 3.4 × 13 × 19.7 cm
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Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

560

Publisher

Year Published

2009-12-3

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

009952953X

About The Author

John Cheever was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1912, and he went to school at Thayer Academy in South Braintree. He is the author of seven collections of stories and five novels. His first novel, The Wapshot Chronicle, won the 1958 National Book Award. In 1965 he received the Howells Medal for Fiction from the National Academy of Arts and Letters and in 1978 he won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Shortly before his death in 1982 he was awarded the National Medal for Literature.

One of the most compelling and intimate books you'll ever read

Other text

Beautifully written, lyrically spiritual, sexually candid memoirs

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