{"product_id":"john-cheever-complete-novels-loa-189-isbn-9781598530353","title":"John Cheever: Complete Novels (LOA #189)","description":"Published to coincide with editor Blake Bailey's groundbreaking new biography, here are the five novels of John Cheever, together in one volume for the first time. In these dazzling works Cheever laid bare the failings and foibles of not just the ascendant postwar elite but also the fallen Yankee aristocrats who stubbornly and often grotesquely and hilariously cling to their shabby gentility as the last vestige of former glory. \u003ci\u003eComplete Novels\u003c\/i\u003e gathers: the riotous family saga \u003ci\u003eThe Wapshot Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the National Book Award) and its sequel \u003ci\u003eThe Wapshot Scandal\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the William Dean Howells Medal); the dark suburban drama \u003ci\u003eBullet Park\u003c\/i\u003e (\"a magnificent work of fiction,\" John Gardner remarked in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e); the prison novel \u003ci\u003eFalconer\u003c\/i\u003e, a radical departure that met with both critical and popular acclaim; and the lyrical ecological fable \u003ci\u003eOh What a Paradise It Seems\u003c\/i\u003e. A companion volume, \u003ci\u003e Collected Stories and Other Writings\u003c\/i\u003e, is the largest edition of Cheever's stories ever.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLIBRARY OF AMERICA\u003c\/b\u003e is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.\u003cb\u003eJohn Cheever \u003c\/b\u003e(1912-1982) was one of the most celebrated novelists and short story writers of the last century, winner of the National Book Award for his first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Wapshot Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e (1957), and both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award for \u003ci\u003eThe Stories of John Cheever\u003c\/i\u003e (1978).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBlake Bailey \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eA Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates\u003c\/i\u003e. His 2009 biography of John Cheever won the National Book Critics Circle Award.","brand":"Library of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300912353509,"sku":"NP9781598530353","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781598530353_77d0e555-4bf0-42ae-a9fb-473dc43db75b.jpg?v=1742922019","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/john-cheever-complete-novels-loa-189-isbn-9781598530353","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}