Bullet Park by John Cheever (English) Paperback Book

Description: Bullet Park by John Cheever Eliot Nailles loves his wife and son to distraction; Paul Hammer is a bastard named after a common household tool. Neighbours in Bullet Park, the two become fatefully linked by the mysterious binding power of their names in Cheevers sharp and funny hymn to the dubious normality of the American suburbs. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description I fell hopelessly in love with John Cheever last year... He was, and his fiction is, extraordinary. I love the way you never know what on Earth is going to happen next Philip HensherEliot Nailles loves his wife and son to distraction; Paul Hammer is a bastard named after a common household tool. Neighbours in Bullet Park, the two become fatefully linked by the mysterious binding power of their names in Cheevers sharp and funny hymn to the dubious normality of the American suburbs. Notes I fell hopelessly in love with John Cheever last year... He was, and his fiction is, extraordinary. I love the way you never know what on Earth is going to happen next Philip Hensher Back Cover In a class by itself, not only among Cheevers work but among all novels I know Joseph Heller Eliot Nailles loves his wife and son to distraction; Paul Hammer is a bastard named after a common household tool. Neighbours in Bullet Park, the two become fatefully linked by the mysterious binding power of their names in Cheevers sharp and funny hymn to the dubious normality of the American suburbs. Cheevers deepest, most challenging book New York Times See Also: The Wapshot Scandal Author Biography John Cheever was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1912, and he went to school at Thayer Academy in South Braintree. He is the author of seven collections of stories and five novels. His first novel, The Wapshot Chronicle, 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 he 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. Review In a class by itself, not only among Cheevers work but among all novels I know -- Joseph HellerCheevers deepest, most challenging book * New York Times *John Cheevers prose is always a pleasure to read because it is both graceful and governed * Chicago Tribune *A master American storyteller * Time *Cheever writes a restrained, half -mocking hymn to the delusions of comfortable America which is a pleasure to read * Guardian *Cheevers intelligence and honesty powerfully communicate the sensations of being alive * Sunday Times * Promotional I fell hopelessly in love with John Cheever last year... He was, and his fiction is, extraordinary. I love the way you never know what on Earth is going to happen next Philip Hensher Kirkus US Review Bullet Park is in the heart of the Cheever country, landscaped with $65,000 houses, with gardens and golf courses and swimming pools, with empty bottles and full ashtrays, as well as the less definable malaise of the mid-century middle class man. It will be familiar to his readers. So are his characters, stubbing their toes on immaterial manifestations, the startled victims of a world they never made but inherited along with comfortable assurances of affluence and the moral fixity of God and family values. Until sooner or later theres the misgiving that something has been lost. Or someone. Like Eliot Nailes son Tony who takes to bed with a depression no doctor can cure - only a swami of dubious origins on the wrong side of town. Or perhaps like Paul Hammer, a bastard who has been circling the world in an alcoholic haze chasing chimera, who doesnt belong anywhere - not even in the bed of his new young wife. It is Paul who finally decides to fulfill his mothers last mad words - that a crucifixion in Bullet Park can shake the world loose from its torporous apathy and the bought releases which make it bearable (television for youngsters like Tony, tranquilizers for his baffled father). Cheevers novel, loosely and somewhat artificially structured, is as fragile as the world it conveys. Behind every well tended rosebush lurk the frustrations and fears of modern man. A twilight tale filled with the sweet, sad, muffled mystery of existence and there will be recognitions and reverberations for everyone. (Kirkus Reviews) Review Text In a class by itself, not only among Cheevers work but among all novels I know Review Quote In a class by itself, not only among Cheevers work but among all novels I know Promotional "Headline" I fell hopelessly in love with John Cheever last year... He was, and his fiction is, extraordinary. I love the way you never know what on Earth is going to happen next Philip Hensher Details ISBN0099914107 Author John Cheever Pages 256 Series Vintage classics Year 1992 ISBN-10 0099914107 ISBN-13 9780099914105 Format Paperback Publication Date 1992-03-19 Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 813.52 Birth 1912 Death 1982 Media Book Tag vintageclassics Language English Publisher Vintage Publishing Imprint Vintage Classics UK Release Date 1992-03-19 AU Release Date 1992-03-19 NZ Release Date 1992-03-19 Alternative 9781409016014 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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