{"product_id":"oh-what-a-paradise-it-seems-isbn-9780679737858","title":"Oh What a Paradise It Seems","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom one of the most renowned twentieth-century American writers, this “luminous ephiphany of life ... [is] a charming fable of old age, nostalgia, and loss” (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Cheever's final novel is a fable set in a village so idyllic it has no fast-food outlet and having as its protagonist an old man, Lemuel Sears, who still has it in him to fall wildly in love with strangers of both sexes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e But Sears's paradise is threatened; the pond he loves is being fouled by unscrupulous polluters. In Cheever's accomplished hands the battle between an elderly romantic and the monstrous aspects of late-twentieth-century civilization becomes something ribald, poignant, and ineffably joyful.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"This is perfect Cheever—it is perfect.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\"John Cheever is an enchanted realist, and his voice, in his luminous short stories and in incomparable novels like \u003ci\u003eBullet Park\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFalconer\u003c\/i\u003e, is as rich and distinctive as any of the leading voices of postwar American literature.\" —Philip Roth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is perfect Cheever—it is perfect.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A luminous epiphany of life.... A charming fable of old age, nostalgia, and loss...engaging and complex ... vivid and alive.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Beautiful ... graceful ... winning ... both upbeat and true to life.... Oh, what a literary paradise is John Cheever!\" —\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Filled with the master's wonderful word magic.... There simply isn't another writer like him ... a delight.\" —\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Cheever\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1912. He is the author of seven collections of stories and five novels. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Wapshot Chronicle,\u003c\/i\u003e won the 1958 National Book Award. In 1965 he received the Howells Medal for Fiction from the National Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 1978 \u003ci\u003eThe Stories of John Cheever\u003c\/i\u003e won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Shortly before his death in 1982, he was awarded the National Medal for Literature from the Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301764321509,"sku":"NP9780679737858","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679737858.jpg?v=1767734039","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/oh-what-a-paradise-it-seems-isbn-9780679737858","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}