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Cheever: A Life (Part 2 of 2 parts) (Library Edition)
Cheever A Life - Part 2 of 2 parts - Library Edition Author:Blake Bailey (This is Part 2 of a 2 part cassette edition) Here is, for the first time, the full and unforgettable life of John Cheever (1912-1982), written with unprecedented access to essential sources. Cheever was a soul in conflict, a high-school dropout who published his first story at eighteen, a dire alcoholic who recovered to write the great novel Fa... more »lconer, 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.« less