Cheever by Blake Bailey
This luminous biography reveals, for the first time, the full and unforgettable life of a writer of timeless fiction. Drawing on unprecedented access to essential sources, Blake Bailey shows us a soul in conflict: a high-school dropout who published his first story at eighteen; a proud Yankee who flaunted his lineage while deploring the provincialism of his Quincy, Massachusetts, family circle; a pioneer of suburban-realist fiction who continually pushed the boundaries of realism; a dire alcoholic who recovered to write the great novel Falconer; a secret bisexual who struggled with a revolving door of self-loathing and hedonism. Concealing his anxieties behind the mask of the genial Westchester squire, Cheever earned fame and glamorous company with his groundbreaking work, yet the joy of creation could never wholly offset his desperate loneliness.The Library of America issued a two-volume edition of Cheever's work in 2009. Blake Bailey edited it. His most recent work, A Tragic Honesty, was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. In 2005, he was awarded a Guggenheim grant, and his work has appeared in Slate, The New York Times, the New York Observer, and other publications. He and his wife and daughter live in Virginia.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781400079681 |
| ISBN 10 | 1400079683 |
| Title | Cheever |
| Author | Blake Bailey |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage |
| Year published | 2010-03-09 |
| Number of pages | 816 |
| Prizes | Winner of Francis Parkman Prize 2010, Winner of National Book Critics Circle Awards 2009, Short-listed for James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2010, Short-listed for Pulitzer Prize 2010 |
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