The Journals of John Cheever

In these journals, the experiences of one of the most renowned twentieth-century American writers come to life with fascinating, wholly revealing detail.John Cheever's journals provide peerless insights into the creation of his novels and stories. But they are equally the record of a complex, often dark, always closely observed inner world. No American writer of comparable stature has left such an unreservedly revealing and moving account of himself: his family life, his literary life, and his emotional life. The final word from one of modern America's great writers, The Journals of John Cheever provides a powerful and beautiful capstone to a towering oeuvre.

Author: John Cheever
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 12/09/2008
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.10w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9780307387257
ISBN10: 0307387259
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
- Literary Criticism | American | General
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs

About the Author
John Cheever was born in 1912. He is the author of seven collections of stories and five novels. He won the National Book Award for The Wapshot Chronicle, and the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for The Stories of John Cheever. He received the Howells Medal for Fiction and the National Medal for Literature. He died in 1982.