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Tells the story of a man, his crime and punishment, and his struggle to remain a man in a world bent on beating him back into childhood.
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- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- John Cheever
- First published
- 1977
- Pages
- 211
- Publisher
- Vintage Books, Knopf, Vintage
- Editions
- 23
- Language
- French, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780394483474
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**John William Cheever** (May 27, 1912 – June 18, 1982) was an American short story writer and novelist. He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs". His fiction is mostly set on the Upper East Side of Manhattan; the Westchester suburbs; old New England villages based on various South Shore towns around Quincy, Massachusetts, where he was born; and Italy, especially Rome. His short stories included *The Enormous Radio, Goodbye, My Brother, The Five-Forty-Eight, The Country Husband,* and *The Swimmer,* and he also wrote five novels: *The Wapshot Chronicle* (National Book Award, 1958), *The Wapshot Scandal* (William Dean Howells Medal, 1965), *Bullet Park* (1969), *Falconer* (1977) and
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