The Letters of John Cheever

by JohnCheever (Author), Benjamin Cheever (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  1989

  $3.40

  This collection of letters by John Cheever, a novelist and short story writer, is edited by his son. He was winner of the National Book award and the Pulitzer Prize and was a prolific letter writer who addressed every aspect and period of his life in his correspondence. He wrote about his days as an aspiring writer to the years following the success of The Stories of John Cheever , as well as his feelings about others' work, his bisexuality and successful battle with alcoholism. Among his correspondents were Saul Bellow, Malcolm Cowley, William Maxwell, John Updike, Robert Penn Warren and Philip Wroth and some of the most important people in his own life. Benjamin Cheever's last novel was Falconer .

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  Paperback
  1992

  $3.40

  Edited by his son, this is a collection of the letters of the American novelist and short-story writer, John Cheever, a winner of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize. It includes correspondence with contemporaries such as Saul Bellow, Malcolm Cowley, John Updike and Philip Roth, and addresses all periods and many aspects of Cheever's life, from his days as a young aspiring writer to the years following the success of The Stories of John Cheever , his bisexuality and his successful battle with alcoholism.