Cheever
by:
Blake Bailey (author)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781299202252 (129920225X)
Publish date: January 1st 2009
Publisher: Vintage Books
Edition language: English
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...
“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...