Description
| Product ID: | 9780099529538 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Journals |
| Authors: | Author: John Cheever |
| Page Count: | 560 |
| Subjects: | Autobiography: writers, Autobiography: literary, Diaries, letters and journals, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Diaries, letters & journals, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating John Cheever's journals reveal the inner life of this remarkable writer and the contradictions that drove him. He loved his wife and their children, but was acutely lonely; he loved women, but he also loved men; he was a great writer, but one whose acute levels of perception often crippled him as a person. John Cheever''s journals reveal the inner life of this remarkable writer and the contradictions that drove him. 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. His journals are candid, beautiful and often startling. |
| Imprint Name: | Vintage Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Vintage Publishing |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2009-12-03 |
