Cheever by Blake Bailey
A Life
A wide-ranging, deeply reported biography that traces an acclaimed American writer’s rise from modest beginnings to literary prominence, juxtaposing the polished, empathetic fiction of suburban life with a tumultuous private existence marked by alcoholism, hidden same-sex desire, fraught marriages, and personal contradictions; drawing on extensive papers and interviews, it shows how his stories both drew from and transformed his experience, and offers a balanced, often unsparing account of his creative gifts, moral complexity, and lasting influence on 20th-century American letters.
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- 2009
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- English
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