Cheever, John (Vol. 3) - Cheever, John 1912–
Cheever, John 1912–
Cheever is an American short story writer and novelist. An astute observer of middle-class morés, Cheever is best known for his contributions to The New Yorker and for the Wapshot novels and Bullet Park. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 5-8, rev. ed.)
There are moments … when Cheever does … seem to resemble Faulkner—in his distinguished story-telling gifts, his obsession with, and creative mastery of, a cultural territory of which he has made himself the sole owner and proprietor, even in his essential integrity and toughness of mind, which have enabled him to be consistently better than the medium he writes for and more serious than his middlebrow admirers would be able to recognize. There are also moments when he seems extraordinary in his power to infuse the commonplace and often merely dyspeptic metaphysical crises of modern life with something of the generalizing significance of myth,...
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