John Cheever Knihy

Román amerického autora, plný humoru a dráždivého šarmu. Sleduje príbehy a kuriózne názory svojich postáv a najmä psychiku manželov Sáry a Leandra Wapshotovcov a ich zápas o zachovanie dôstojnosti starého novoanglického rodu. Dozviete sa veľa o citovom a erotickom dozrievaní pána Leandra, o jeho mravných aj nemravných činoch. Taktiež autor ponúka historky zo života stredných vrstiev v mestečku Sv.Botolps, historky, ktoré ako mozaika vytvárajú obraz o citovom bohatstve a názorovom svete malomestských ľudí na západ od Bostonu.

These stories from the pen of American award-winning novelist John Cheever show the power and range of one of the finest short story writers of the century.

Stunning and brutally powerful, Falconer tells the story of a man named Farragut, his crime and punishment, and his struggle to remain a man in a universe bent on beating him back into childhood. Only John Cheever could deliver these grand themes with the irony, unforced eloquence, and exhilarating humor that make Falconer such a triumphant work of the moral imagination.

První román amerického spisovatele (do té doby povídkáře), v němž se na představitelích tří generací jedné americké rodiny zachycuje život od počátku tohoto století až po naše dny. V knize je takto zachycena mizící Amerika MarkaTwaina a figurek Thurberových v groteskní konfrontaci s atomovou základnou, výpočtovými středisky, raketami startujícími do vesmíru a zákulisím newyorských snack barů. Zábavná kronika tří generací s celou škálou výborně viděných lidských typů.

The American writer, John Cheever, died in 1982, leaving behind 29 loose-leaf notebooks begun in the late Forties. They form the content of this book. His commitment to them was of central importance to his life - as a workbook and a retreat, an unhindered act of self-revelation where he could explore his ambiguities. He loved his wife and their children, but was acutely lonely; he loved women, but he also loved men; he hated himself for his drinking, but for much of his life was dependent upon it; he was a great writer, but one whose acute levels of perception often crippled him as a person.

A collection of 13 early stories from the 1930s and 1940s.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAY MCINERNEYJohn Cheever's letters offer a tantalising glimpse into the life of a writer. They include correspondence with his contemporaries, such as Philip Roth, John Updike and Saul Bellow, his days as a young, aspiring writer and his battles with bisexuality and alcoholism.

Selected and Introduced by Booker-Prize winner Julian Barnes 'Reading Cheever is a restless pleasure, the work never settles- these brilliant stories make me get up and walk around the room' Anne Enright John Cheever - the 'Chekhov of the suburbs' - forever altered the landscape of contemporary literature. In a career that spanned nearly fifty years, his short stories, often published in the New Yorker, gave voice to the repressed desires and smouldering disappointments of 1950s America as it teetered on the edge of spiritual awakening and sexual liberation in the ensuing decades. Selected for the first time, these satirical, fantastical, sad and transcendent stories show Cheever in all his brilliance and continue to speak directly to the heart of human experience. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award

Eliot Nailles loves his wife and son to distraction; Paul Hammer is a bastard named after a common household tool. Neighbours in Bullet Park, the two become fatefully linked by the mysterious binding power of their names in Cheever's sharp and funny hymn to the dubious normality of the American suburbs.