Home Before Dark [Paperback]

Susan Cheever (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 2001

John Cheever wrote a number of best-selling novels - Bullet Park, The Wapshot Chronicle and Falconer - and short stories, most notably The Swimmer which was the basis of the iconic film starring Burt Lancaster. As he lay dying from cancer, Susan Cheever began to write about him in order to make sense of his life. Home Before Dark is a moving and brilliantly restrained account of John Cheever's life and work. From his early days as a penniless writer for the New Yorker to the 1960s, when he was showered with prestigious awards and fellowships, his daughter traces the course of John Cheever's extraordinary talent and his struggles with ambition, alcoholism and his private desires. 'Home Before Dark clearly demanded more from its author, more courage and force of heart than will be required of any biographer of John Cheever...Intimate, deeply felt and often harrowing' - New York Times

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About the Author

Susan Cheever is the author of five novels and three other memoirs. She lives in New York.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks (June 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1860646808
• ISBN-13: 978-1860646805
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,773,871 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I was born in New York City and have lived here on and off my entire life--in fact I went to nursery school a few blocks from where I write this. It took me a long time to admit I was a writer--I had a career as a teacher and I loved it. When I was married I couldn't get a teaching job so by an amazing stroke of luck I went to work for my local small town newspaper. After a long time as a newspaper and magazine journalist, I took off to write a novel when I was 35 and I haven't looked back.