Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780099583134
Publisert
2015
Utgiver
Vendor
Vintage Classics
Vekt
138 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
12 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Forfatter
Biographical note
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.
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 and guilt, and the brutal monotony of his surroundings to retain his humanity, eventually finding the possibility of redemption through an affair with a fellow prisoner. Considered by many to be Cheever's masterpiece, Falconer is a tour de force from one of America's greatest storytellers.
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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.
A whole swathe of poor and underprivileged America is evoked by one of the country's most rarified stylists
The raw, rage-filled final novel from a master American storyteller
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780099583134
Publisert
2015
Utgiver
Vendor
Vintage Classics
Vekt
138 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
12 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Forfatter