The Journals

ISBN-13: 9780099529538 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 560 str.

John Cheever

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John Cheever's journals reveal the inner life of this remarkable writer & the contradictions that drove him. He loved his wife & their children, but was acutely lonely; he loved women, but he also loved men; he hated himself for his drinking, but for much of his life was dependent upon it. His journals are candid, beautiful & often startling.

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One of the most compelling and intimate books you'll ever read Independent

O autorze

Cheever, John
John Cheever was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1912, and he went to school at Thayer Academy in South Braintree. He is the author of seven collections of stories and five novels. His first novel, The Wapshot Chronicle, won the 1958 National Book Award. In 1965 he received the Howells Medal for Fiction from the National Academy of Arts and Letters and in 1978 he won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer prize. Shortly before his death in 1982 he was awarded the National Medal for Literature. Dyer, Geoff
Geoff Dyer was born in Cheltenham in 1958. He is the author of Ways of Telling, a critical study of John Berger, and The Colour of Memory, a novel. He wrote But Beautiful while living in New York.