Oh What A Paradise It Seems

ISBN-13: 9780099411512 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 112 str.

John Cheever

Opis

In an idyllic American village, elderly romantic Lemuel Sears still falls wildly in love with strangers of both sexes. But his paradise is under threat; the pond he loves is being fouled by unscrupulous polluters involved in organised crime. Can Lemuel thwart the monstrous aspects of late 20th century civilisation & save his beloved village?

Recenzje

This delightful fable shows him at the height of his powers Observer

O autorze

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.