Falconer (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: John Cheever
- First Published: 1977
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The early 1970’s
- Setting: Falconer Prison, near New York City, and Southwick, Connecticut
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: 1970’s, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Prisoners, Prisons, Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Escapes, New York City, Substance abuse, Fratricide, parricide, or filicide, Drug addiction or addicts, Riots
- Locales: New York, NY, Connecticut
Characters Discussed
Ezekiel (Zeke) Farragut, a forty-eight- year-old veteran of World War II, college professor, drug addict, and convicted murderer. He is articulate, sensitive, masculine, and sex-crazed. Zeke’s story is one of imprisonment, drug withdrawal, homosexual love, fratricide, and affirmation of life. The story begins at the time of Zeke’s imprisonment in Falconer, a one-hundred-year-old prison in what is evidently New York state. While there, he is mistreated by guards who deny him methadone while he is withdrawing from heroin. He falls in love with Jody,...
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