Home Before Dark (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Susan Cheever
- First Published: 1984
- Time of Work: 1912–1982
- Setting: Quincy, Massachusetts; New York City, Scarborough, and Ossining, New York; and Rome, Italy
- Principal Characters: John Cheever, Mary Winternitz Cheever, Susan Cheever, Benjamin, Fred Cheever
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Memoir, Family literature, Biography
- Subjects: Family or family life, Parents and children, Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Authors or writers, Marriage, Alcoholism or alcoholics, Substance abuse, Novelists, Cancer, Fathers, Adultery, Creative process, Fame
- Locales: New York, NY, France, Rome, Italy, Quincy, MA, Ossining, NY, Scarborough, NY
Form and Content
From its homey title (a parent’s admonition to a child) to its closing chapters describing John Cheever’s illness and death, Susan Cheever’s Home Before Dark demands and deserves to be read whole rather than dipped into for quick reference. Personal in tone but never sentimentally or intensely so, this biographical memoir has no index and does not approach Cheever’s life in strictly chronological fashion. Rather, its twenty-five brief chapters, while adhering to the general birth-to-death pattern of that life, seem more like memory clusters in...
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