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Cheever: A Life - Blake Bailey
Cheever: A Life
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780330437905 (0330437909)
Publisher: Picador Usa
Pages no: 784
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction, Autobiography, Memoir, Biography, History, Criticism, Literary Criticism, Biography Memoir
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M Sarki
M Sarki rated it
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I was thinking I might revisit this book next summer here at my cabin as I do like the writing of Blake Bailey. There is no doubt this is a very good book and well-written. But my problem lies with John Cheever. I have never read his fiction and really do not have any desire to do so. I really do...
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JeffreyKeeten
JeffreyKeeten rated it
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“For me a page of good prose is where one hears the rain. A page of good prose is when one hears the noise of battle.... A page of good prose seems to me the most serious dialogue that well-informed and intelligent men and women carry on today in their endeavor to make sure that the fires of this pl...
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