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Falconer
In a nightmarish prison, out of Farragut's suffering and astonishing salvation, Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Cheever crafted his most powerful work of fiction. Only 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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publish Date: Jan 15th, 1992
- Pages: 224
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.01in - 5.19in - 0.60in - 0.45lb
- EAN: 9780679737865
- Categories: • Literary• Crime• LGBTQ+ - Gay
About the Author
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What people are saying
Garth Greenwell is a novelist, poet, and book critic.
On Judgment Day, from John Cheever’s Falconer: “Forfeiture & torment are, even in the earliest reports, much more passionately painted than eternal peace. Men thirsted, burned & took it up the ass with much more force & passion than they played their harps & flew.”
Tina Jordan is the Deputy Editor of the New York Times Book Review.
After she reviewed John Cheever's "Falconer," Alfred Kazin wrote to the TBR, incensed at the way Didion had interpreted his criticism of the Cheever short story "The Country Husband." https://t.co/7rh2Q4oYbD
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Joan Didion wrote for The New York Times as well. Her work was as eclectic and insightful as you might imagine, ranging from a profile of Joan Baez to a review of John Cheever’s “Falconer.” https://t.co/uQZpIjf6RA https://t.co/wMzeVvW0ch
Praise for this book
"One of the most important novels of our time.... Read it and be ennobled." --The New York Times
"Falconer is splendid. It is rough, it is elegant, it is pure. It is also indispensable, if you earnestly desire to know what is happening to the human soul in the U.S.A." --Saul Bellow
"One of our truly fine writers.... The novel proceeds directly on its course, taking the reader along with it.... Moving and excellent." --The Washington Post
"John Cheever is an enchanted realist, and his voice ... is as rich and distinctive as any of the leading voices of postwar American literature." --Philip Roth
What people are saying
Garth Greenwell is a novelist, poet, and book critic.
On Judgment Day, from John Cheever’s Falconer: “Forfeiture & torment are, even in the earliest reports, much more passionately painted than eternal peace. Men thirsted, burned & took it up the ass with much more force & passion than they played their harps & flew.”
Tina Jordan is the Deputy Editor of the New York Times Book Review.
After she reviewed John Cheever's "Falconer," Alfred Kazin wrote to the TBR, incensed at the way Didion had interpreted his criticism of the Cheever short story "The Country Husband." https://t.co/7rh2Q4oYbD