The Letters of John Cheever (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: John Cheever
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Letters
- Time of Work: 1933-1982
- Setting: New York and Europe
- Genres: Nonfiction, Letters
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, 1970’s, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Parents and children, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, 1940’s, Writing, 1930’s, 1980’s, Novelists, Fathers, Letters
- Locales: Europe, New York
The primary justification for a volume of letters such as the present one is that it sheds some light—however oblique—on the writer and the writer's work. That the present collection of letters most certainly does. Through the course of these letters, readers can watch John Cheever the writer emerge, as his style develops and his fame grows. The writer who would win the National Book Award for his first novel, The Wapshot Chronicle (1957), is here in that year, complaining that it has taken him twenty years to get a novel published. The short-story writer who would cap his...
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