FEATURES: THE BRIGADIER AND THE GOLF WIDOW BY: JOHN CHEEVER
A) CONDITION BOOK: NEAR FINE - HARD BOUND
B) CONDITION DUST JACKET: GOOD - PRICE CLIPPED
C) FIRST EDITION / LATER PRINTING - HARPER & ROW 1964
D) NOTE: REPAIRED TEAR TO DUST JACKET. 275 PAGES.
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POOR ================ John Cheever was an American novelist and short story writer, sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs" or "the Ovid of Ossining." His fiction is mostly set in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the suburbs of Westchester, New York, and old New England villages based on various South Shore towns around Quincy, Massachusetts, where he was born.
His main themes include the duality of human nature: sometimes dramatized as the disparity between a character's decorous social persona and inner corruption, and sometimes as a conflict between two characters (often brothers) who embody the salient aspects of both--light and dark, flesh and spirit. Many of his works also express a nostalgia for a vanishing way of life, characterized by abiding cultural traditions and a profound sense of community, as opposed to the alienating nomadism of modern suburbia. - A thank you from BooksCardsNBikes
