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Oh, What a Paradise it Seems
John Cheever
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Description for Oh, What a Paradise it Seems
Paperback. In an idyllic American village, elderly romantic Lemuel Sears still has it in him to fall wildly in love with strangers of both sexes. But Sears' paradise is under threat. Can Sears thwart the monstrous aspects of late-twentieth-century civilisation and save his beloved village? Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 8. Weight in Grams: 86.
In an idyllic American village, elderly romantic Lemuel Sears still has it in him to fall wildly in love with strangers of both sexes. But Sears's paradise is under threat; the pond he loves is being fouled by unscrupulous polluters involved in organised crime. Can Sears thwart the monstrous aspects of late-twentieth-century civilisation and save his beloved village?
Cheever's wry fable of modern American is interlaced with musings on everything from the etiquette of supermarket queues to the evolution of the ice-skate.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
112
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099411512
SKU
V9780099411512
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99-99
About John Cheever
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.
Reviews for Oh, What a Paradise it Seems
This delightful fable shows him at the height of his powers
Observer
John Cheever is an enchanted realist, and his voice, in his luminous short stories and in incomparable novels like Bullet Park and Falconer, is as rich and distinctive as any of the leading voices of postwar American literature
Philip Roth
This curious novella is Cheever's wry pastoral fable about the state of modern America
Sunday Times
Sheer pleasure...his prose is charged like Scott Fitzgerald's
Listener
John Cheever understood fallibility and that made for the greatness in his writing
The Times
Cheever is a pleasure to read
San Francisco Chronicle
Observer
John Cheever is an enchanted realist, and his voice, in his luminous short stories and in incomparable novels like Bullet Park and Falconer, is as rich and distinctive as any of the leading voices of postwar American literature
Philip Roth
This curious novella is Cheever's wry pastoral fable about the state of modern America
Sunday Times
Sheer pleasure...his prose is charged like Scott Fitzgerald's
Listener
John Cheever understood fallibility and that made for the greatness in his writing
The Times
Cheever is a pleasure to read
San Francisco Chronicle