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Complete Novels: The Wapshot Chronicle; The Wapshot Scandal; Bullet Park; Falconer; Oh What a Paradise It Seems

Door John Cheever

Categorie
Engels
Boeknummer
#336505-XA34
Titel
Complete Novels: The Wapshot Chronicle; The Wapshot Scandal; Bullet Park; Falconer; Oh What a Paradise It Seems
Auteur
Cheever, John
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
New York, NY : The Library of America
Jaar van uitgave
2009
ISBN10
1598530356
ISBN13
9781598530353
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original gilt lettered cloth, dust jacket, ribbon marker, India paper, 8vo.
Samenvatting
Published to coincide with editor Blake Bailey's groundbreaking new biography, here are the five novels of John Cheever, together in one volume for the first time. In these dazzling works Cheever laid bare the failings and foibles of not just the ascendant postwar elite but also the fallen Yankee aristocrats who stubbornly and often grotesquely and hilariously cling to their shabby gentility as the last vestige of former glory. Complete Novels gathers: the riotous family saga The Wapshot Chronicle (winner of the National Book Award) and its sequel The Wapshot Scandal (winner of the William Dean Howells Medal); the dark suburban drama Bullet Park ("a magnificent work of fiction," John Gardner remarked in The New York Times Book Review); the prison novel Falconer, a radical departu... (Lees verder)re that met with both critical and popular acclaim; and the lyrical ecological fable Oh What a Paradise It Seems. A companion volume, Collected Stories and Other Writings, is the largest edition of Cheever's stories ever.

LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Pagina's
933
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 15,00

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