Oh What a Paradise It Seems (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: John Cheever
- First Published: 1982
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Realism
- Time of Work: An unspecified past, but probably the early 1980’s
- Setting: New York City and Janice, a small suburban town
- Genres: Long fiction, Realism
- Subjects: New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, New York City, 1980’s, Suburban life, Environment or environmental health, Pollution, Ponds
- Locales: New York, NY
Characters Discussed
Lemuel Sears, an old but still quite athletic man who has an unspecified but clearly quite high-ranking position with a firm specializing in “intrusion systems for computer containers.” An odd mixture of innocence and lustiness, and of spirituality and carnality, he associates fleetness with divinity. Twice widowered, he spends much of his time pursuing the pleasures of the flesh, concurrently seeking to purify not only a contaminated pond where he has twice gone ice skating but also his own spiritual nature. He is strongly attracted to the past, but...
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