John Cheever

Oh What A Paradise It Seems

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In an idyllic American village, elderly romantic Lemuel Sears still has it in him to fall wildly in love with strangers of both sexes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage, London
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 626196
• 1994.
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 126mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 84g
• ISBN-13: 9780099411512
• ISBN-10: 0099411512
• Artikelnr.: 25146868

Autorenporträt

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.

Rezensionen

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