Synopses & Reviews
Published to coincide with editor Blake Bailey?s groundbreaking new biography, here are the five novels of John Cheever, together in one volume for the first time. In these dazzling works Cheever laid bare the failings and foibles of not just the ascendant postwar elite but also the fallen Yankee aristocrats who stubbornly? and often grotesquely and hilariously?cling to their shabby gentility as the last vestige of former glory.
Complete Novels gathers: the riotous family saga
The Wapshot Chronicle (winner of the National Book Award) and its sequel
The Wapshot Scandal (winner of the William Dean Howells Medal); the dark suburban drama
Bullet Park (?a magnificent work of fiction,? John Gardner remarked in
The New York Times Book Review); the prison novel
Falconer, a radical departure that met with both critical and popular acclaim; and the lyrical ecological fable
Oh What a Paradise It Seems. A companion volume,
Collected Stories and Other Writings, is the largest edition of Cheever?s stories ever.
Synopsis
The Library of America presents this definitive collection of Cheever's novels: "The Wapshot Chronicle, The Wapshot Scandal, Bullet Park, Falconer," and "Oh What a Paradise It Seems."