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	John Cheever - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Cheever (May 27, 1912–June 18, 1982) was an American novelist and short story writer, sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs." His The Stories of John Cheever won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1979.
		Cheever died in 1982, at the age of 70, in Ossinning, New York.
		John Cheever: Parody and The Suburban Aesthetic by John Dyer
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Cheever (854 words)

	John Cheever: Parody and The Suburban Aesthetic
		Cheever addresses questions of human agency in the American suburbs of the mid-twentieth century in these stories, describing suburbanite as vacillating between opposite poles of control and confusion, between the dream of what the suburban lifestyle offers and the reality, fraught with problems, that questions that dream.
		Cheever parodies the suburbs, and by examining this method in relation to the author's subject-matter, we find that his critical view becomes complicated, and in many ways, complicitous.
		Cheever seems to be attacking and agreeing with everyone at once, with those who see the Crutchman's as possibly hypocritical, or as boring, and with those who would say there is nothing wrong with an ostensibly happy family.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~MA95/dyer/cheever4.html (9241 words)

	John Cheever
		Cheever was a writer whose more famous novels include The Wapshot Chronicle, The Wapshot Scandal, Falconer and Bullet Park.
		John Cheever was able to portray the American suburbanite at mid-twentieth century as both valiant and pathetic at the same time.
		Cheever introduces nudity in the opening scenes of the narrative and then plays with this trope in order to make statements about his characters' feelings of innocence and guilt...
	www.queertheory.com /histories/c/cheever_john.htm (874 words)

	The National Book Foundation
		Critics have attributed John Cheever's slow ascent to recognition to the idea that he spent too much time and energy focusing upon upper middle-class, suburban characters; and also to his dedication to the short story form.
		Cheever was born in Quincy, Massachusetts on May 27, 1912.
		Cheever went to live with his older brother, Frederick, in Boston, and then moved down to New York City where he rented a tiny apartment, subsisted on bread and buttermilk, and eked out a living writing short stories and screenplay synopses for MGM.
	www.nationalbook.org /dirletter_jcheever.html (734 words)

	Alibris: John Cheever
		by Cheever, John, and Weaver, John D. Offering a unique and personal view of the life of John Cheever, Glad Tidings features the correspondence, spanning forty years, between Cheever and his friend and fellow writer John Weaver--brilliantly funny and moving reflections on family life and the hardships of trying to live as a writer.
		by Anderson, Sherwood, and Cheever, John, and Mujica Lainez, Manuel
		by Bender, Aimee, and Cheever, Benjamin, and Junger, Sebastian
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Cheever,John (695 words)

	Fiction: John Cheever
		This site presents several critical essays on Cheever's work, including "Parody and the Suburban Aesthetic," and "Cheever's Puritanism and the Pastoral." Photographs of the author are also featured.
		Cheever's first collection of stories, The Way Some People Live, appeared in 1942, while he was completing a four-year stint of army duty.
		The Stories of John Cheever, published in 1978, won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award and became one of the few collections of short stories ever to make the New York Times bestseller list.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/fiction/cheever.htm (382 words)

	Amazon.com: Stories of John Cheever (Mission Earth): Books: John Cheever (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Cheever is a master of subtly shifting the mood of a piece.
		John Cheever's work may not appeal to all; those of us who are not WASP's, from New England, or do not live in suburbs might feel these stories are about the trivialities of elites, but the truth is far different.
		John Cheever was our last great writer, or the last great writer of the 20th century.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0886461324?v=glance (1919 words)

	'The Stories of John Cheever' review on the official website of Laura Hird
		John O’Hara may have invented that genre, but Cheever brought it to its apex, and - as shown - the epiphanies can be marvellous.
		Fortunately, though, Cheever is the far superior short story stylist because his tales are not as hermetically walled off to the contemporary reader as those of Fitzgerald, and therefore more emotionally more accessible, especially when limning schlubs.
		And, in Cheever’s story, the devices actually enhance or serve the tales, and are not mere accoutrements to blow the writer’s own horn, and solipsistically preen on their coolness.
	www.laurahird.com /newreview/storiesofjohncheever.html (1645 words)

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		John Cheever attended Thayer Academy in Milton, Massachusetts as a teenager until he was expelled at age seventeen for smoking and bad grades.
		When John Cheever was sixty, he suffered a massive heart attack and spent many weeks of recovery in the Memorial Hospital in Tarrytown, NY.
		John Cheever's first story to be published was entitled "Expelled," which was about his experience of being expelled from Thayer Academy.
	www.ncteamericancollection.org /litmap/cheever_john_nh.htm (767 words)

	John Cheever's 'Housebreaker,' Welcome as Ever (washingtonpost.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		John Cheever, whose sardonic yet sympathetic depictions of life in suburbia are memorably etched in the "Housebreaker" short stories.
		Cheever himself lived a suburban life, though he was more observer of than participant in suburbia's cozy, charged rituals.
		Cheever knew that ultimately this is the only course for all of us, and he found honorable, appealing things in our clumsy attempts to carry on.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A63180-2004Jul19.html (1218 words)

	PAL: John Cheever (1912-1982)
		O'Hara, James E. John Cheever: a study of the short fiction.
		Mason, Kenneth C. "Tradition and Desecration: The Wapshot Novels of John Cheever." Arizona Quarterly 43.3 (1987): 231-50.
		"John Cheever: Dodging the Bullet." Arkansas Quarterly 2.4 (Oct 1993) 325-34.
	www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap10/cheever.html (326 words)

	John Cheever -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		The stories and novels of John Cheever explored the material satisfactions and spiritual frustrations of modern upper-middle-class life.
		Cheever was born on May 27, 1912, in Quincy, Mass.
		Cheever has been called the Chekhov of the suburbs”; for his ability to capture the drama and sadness of the lives of his characters by revealing the undercurrents of apparently insignificant events.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9310658 (686 words)

	Studies in Short Fiction: Lisbon and Hackensack in Cheever's 'The Swimmer.' (John Cheever)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		John Cheever's citation of Lisbon and Hackensack in the opening of 'The Swimmer' is rarely noted because they are seemingly unrelated to the book.
		Cheever's juxtaposition of these cities, however, is based on the origin of their names.
		The opening of John Cheever's "The Swimmer" contains the following passage describing the atmospheric conditions on the Sunday that Ned Merrill undertakes his quasi-epic swim through the succession of swimming pools he names the...
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:20831950&... (233 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Meet the Writers
		A master of the short story, John Cheever helped make the New Yorker's fiction section a reliably good read from the 1950s up until his death in the early '80s.
		When this collection of Cheever's stories was first published, it became an instant national bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize.
		Cheever's children also became writers, and daughter Susan has written several works directly and indirectly related to her father.
	www.barnesandnoble.com /writers/writer.asp?cid=968045 (217 words)

	The Stories of John Cheever, Constant Reader Discussion
		John Cheever has the story credit, and the screenplay is by Eleanor Perry.
		Cheever's mastery lies in the handling of Neddy's gradual, devastating progress from boundless optimism to bottomless despair, from summer to fall, from swimming pool to swimming pool, no two alike, each described with Cheever's lyrical precision.
		Cheever's writing causes me to focus on what he's writing about, rather than how it is written, as has already been alluded to in this thread.
	www.constantreader.com /discussions/storiesofjohncheever.htm (11189 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: John Cheever
		John Cheever among his eleven books was perhaps best known for his short stories dealing with upper middle class suburban life.
		Falconer is set in a nightmarish prison where a convict named Farragut struggles to remain a man. Out of Farragut's suffering and astonishing salvation, John Cheever crafted his most powerful work of fiction.
		In The World of Apples, John Cheever's characters--innocent, old-fashioned, self-aware--are summoned by strange and improbable events to ponder the values they have been taught to trust...
	www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/JohnCheevereBooks.htm (356 words)

	Moviefone: Movie Celebrities - John Cheever: MAIN
		John Cheever (1912-1982), the leading exponent of the kind of carefully fashioned...
		The Stories of John Cheever, published in 1978, won both the Pulitzer...
		John Cheever: Parody and The Suburban Aesthetic · "The Housebreaker of...
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	John Cheever (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Lisbon and Hackensack in Cheever's 'The Swimmer.' (John Cheever)
		Son Ben edits John Cheever's latest chronicle - the literary genius' intimate, often scandalous letters.
		A new Cheever chronicle - by John's daughter, Susan - reveals his tormented life.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0811604.html (264 words)

	JOHN CHEEVER-GEORGE MCLOONE COLLECTION: FOLDER LISTING
		DESCRIPTION: 1 TLS from John Cheever to George McLoone regarding Cheever's short story, "The World of Apples," which was published in a December 1966 issue of Esquire, dated 1/9/1967.
		DESCRIPTION: 1 TLS from John Cheever to George McLoone referring to the protests against the Vietnam War that occurred in Washington, D.C., dated 11/13/1969.
		DESCRIPTION: 1 TLS from John Cheever to George McLoone in which he discusses his relationship with one of his closet friends, Alwyn Lee (1912-1970), and editor at Time magazine who had died three weeks earlier, dated 7/29/1970.
	www.library.georgetown.edu /dept/speccoll/fl/f259}1.htm (736 words)

	Amazon.com: The Stories of John Cheever Part 1 of 2: Books: John Cheever (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Cheever captures a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with river-light, when Benny Goodman was king of the air.
		Here are 61 magnificent stories, bringing together everything from five earlier collections as well as four major stories that have never been published in book form.
		For more than 30 years, John Cheever celebrated the deepest feelings we have, and did it with unequaled grace and tenderness." (B-O-T Editorial Review Board) --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/5557082808?v=glance (396 words)

	From Revolution to Reconstruction: Outlines: Outline of American Literature: American Prose Since 1945: Realism and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		John Cheever often has been called a "novelist of manners." He is known for his elegant, suggestive short stories, which scrutinize the New York business world through its effects on the businessmen, their wives, children, and friends.
		His titles reveal his characteristic nonchalance, playfulness, and irreverence and hint at his subject matter.
		Cheever also published several novels -- The Wapshot Scandal (1964), Bullet Park (1969), and Falconer (1977) -- the last of which was largely autobiographical.
	odur.let.rug.nl /~usa/LIT/cheever.htm (125 words)

	AllRefer.com - John Cheever (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		His expulsion from Thayer Academy was the subject of his first short story, published by the New Republic when he was 17.
		With meticulously rendered detail, Cheever writes about life in the affluent American suburbs.
		by B. Cheever (1988); biographies by S. Donaldson (1988) and S. Cheever, Home Before Dark (1984); study by L. Waldeland (1979).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/Cheever.html (211 words)

	BrothersJudd.com - Review of John Cheever's The Stories of John Cheever
		There's a certain smug, elitist assumption in most of the highbrow fiction of the 50s, 60s and 70s that American suburbia is sort of a Potemkin Village--a pretty facade disguising lives of quiet desperation.
		You know the type of story--Dad works in the aerospace industry; Mom's a real estate broker; there are three kids, barbecues every weekend, bridge clubs, bowling leagues, etc., etc., etc., but no one really finds their life fulfilling so they secretly escape into sex, drugs and alcohol, yadda, yadda, yadda...
		-ESSAY: John Cheever: Parody and The Suburban Aesthetic (John Dyer)
	www.brothersjudd.com /index.cfm/fuseaction/reviews.detail/book_id/1072 (1486 words)

	Random House \| Authors \| John Cheever
		In a nightmarish prison a convict named Farragut struggles to remain a man. Out of Farragut's suffering and astonishing salvation, Cheever crafted his most powerful work of fiction.
		An old man falls violently in love and does valiant battle against unscrupulous polluters in John Cheever's ineffably joyful last novel.
		In his finely wrought novels and short stories, John Cheever created men and women, young and old, suburbanites and city dwellers, all of whom, whether they reside in St. Botolphs or Bullet Park or mid-century Manhattan or some other mythic place, are all recognizable as citizens of Cheever country.
	www.randomhouse.com /author/results.pperl?authorid=4756 (260 words)

	AddALL.com - John Cheever
		Here are twelve magnificent stories in which John Cheever celebrates -- with unequaled grace and tenderness -- the deepest feelings we have.
		In 1965 he received the Howells Medal for Fiction from the National Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 1978 The Stories of John Cheever won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
		Benjamin Cheever is the author of The Plagiarist, The Parisian and Famous after Death.
	www.addall.com /detail/0060554835.html (201 words)

	The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Cheever, John @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		CHEEVER, JOHN [Cheever, John] 1912-82, American author, b.
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	ReadingGroupGuides.com - The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever
		Purity and carnality are major themes in Cheever's works.
		Many of Cheever's characters feel a compelling need for rebirth.
		The desire human beings have for a cleansing or baptism is universal and is evident in his characters.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/wapshot_chronicle1.asp (578 words)

	John Cheever (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		I first came to Cheever through his Journals.
		There's something about his mythic, grandiose idea about life that appeals to me. He is so good, I sometimes don't write because I know I'll never be that good.
		Next, read The Letters of John Cheever edited by his son Ben.
	www.wiu.edu /users/brs101/cheever.htm (94 words)

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