The Journals of John Cheever (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: John Cheever
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Journal
- Time of Work: The 1940’s to the 1980’s
- Setting: Primarily the United States
- Genres: Nonfiction, Diary
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, 1970’s, Sex or sexuality, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, 1940’s, 1980’s, Spiritual life or spirituality, Alcoholism or alcoholics, Emotions, Obsession, Storytelling, Self-revelations
- Locales: United States
Culled from twenty-nine looseleaf notebooks filled over some thirty-five years and representing just one-twentieth of the estimated total of three to four million words, The Journals of John Cheever is an amazing, at times literally astonishing, work. Part confession and part workbook, it often seems less a record of observations and experiences than a labyrinth of obsessions real and imagined. The publication of daughter Susan Cheever’s two memoirs, Home Before Dark: A Biographical Memoir of John Cheever (1984) and Treetops: A Family Memoir (1991), son Benjamin...
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