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Cheever by blake bailey5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() The term Cheever country has become shorthand for the claustrophobically idyllic New York City commuter suburbs of the 1950s, and the conventional wisdom about Cheever is that he was a consummate WASP who spent most of his life drunk and in the closet.īut Cheever, raised by dismally estranged parents on Boston's South Shore, was a self-created American phenomenon, his father a shoe salesman who couldn't save the family home from foreclosure, his mother the proprietor of a cluttered gift shop. Surprisingly few people these days are familiar with John Cheever's many remarkable short stories or his five novels. ![]() Knopf 770 pages $35) John Cheever Collected Stories and Other Writings ( Library of America 1,040 pages $35) John Cheever Complete Novels (Library of America 933 pages $35) ![]()
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