Modern Library Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century (63)
Somehow, this piffling little wifty novel won a National Book Award
in 1958. The, supposedly, tragicomic story of the decline of the Wapshot
family--father Leander, a ferry boat captain, & his sons Coverly and
Moses--left me totally unmoved and uninterested.
N.B.--I'm writing this two years later (May 2000) and I've figured it
out. Cheever was a master of the short story (see Orrin's
review of The Stories of John Cheever) and the panel simply rewarded
a bad novel in an attempt to acknowledge him as a writer. The book's
still dreck, but it makes a little more sense that it made the list.
(Reviewed:)
Grade: (D)
Websites:
Book-related and General Links:
-John
Cheever (1912-1982)(kirjasto)
-ENCYCLOPAEDIA
BRITANNICA: Your search: "john cheever"
-Julie
and Janet's Page on John Cheever
-ESSAY:
John Cheever and Indirection (Rick Moody, Conjunctions)
-ESSAY:
John Cheever: Parody and The Suburban Aesthetic (John Dyer)
-ESSAY:
PERSONAL BEST: " T h e S w i m m e r
" b y J o h n C h e e v e r (MICHAEL
CHABON, Salon)
-ESSAY:
Saul Bellow: On John Cheever, NY Review of Books
-ESSAY:
Position Paper on "Goodbye, My Brother"
-ESSAY:
Addiction in John Cheever's "The Enormous Radio" (Dr. Clifton
Snider, Sample Story Analysis)
-REMARKS:
Brokenness: on form and the short story (Paul Lisicky, Blithe House
Quarterly)
-ESSAY:
WRITERS AND ALCOHOL (Ann Waldron, The Washington Post)
-ESSAY:
ONE TOO MANY FOR THE MUSE (J. Anthony Lukas, NY Times Book Review)
-ESSAY:
YADDO (JEAN NATHAN, NY Times Book Review)
-LINKS:
John Cheever (1912-1982) (Bedford/St. Martins, Lit Links)
-LINKS:
American Modernism
-REVIEW:
Robert Towers: Light Touch, NY Review of Books
The Stories of John Cheever
by John Cheever
-REVIEW:
Elizabeth Hardwick: The Family Way, NY Review of Books
The Wapshot Scandal by John
Cheever
-REVIEW:
Frederick C. Crews: Domestic Manners, NY Review of Books
Drive, He Said by Jeremy
Larner
Teeth, Dying And Other Matters
by Richard G. Stern
The Brigadier and the Golf
Widow by John Cheever
-REVIEW:
Thomas R. Edwards: Surprise, Surprise, NY Review of Books
The World of Apples by John
Cheever
People Will Always Be Kind
by Wilfrid Sheed
Points for a Compass Rose
by Evan S. Connell, Jr.
-REVIEW:
Robert Towers: Up the River, NY Review of Books
Falconer by John Cheever
A Place to Come To by Robert
Penn Warren
-REVIEW:
of THE JOURNALS OF JOHN CHEEVER By John Cheever (Mary Gordon, NY Times
Book Review)
-REVIEW:
of The Journals of John Cheever Edited by Robert Gottlieb (HERBERT
MITGANG, NY times)
-REVIEW:
of The Letters of John Cheever Edited by Benjamin Cheever (JOHN GROSS,
NY Times)
-REVIEW:
of THE LETTERS OF JOHN CHEEVER Edited by Benjamin Cheever (Robert Kiely,
NY times Book Review)
-REVIEW:
of OH WHAT A PARADISE IT SEEMS By John Cheever (John Leonard, NY Times
Book Review)
-REVIEW:
of OH WHAT A PARADISE IT SEEMS By John Cheever (Anatole Broyard, NY
Times)
-REVIEW:
of THIRTEEN UNCOLLECTED STORIES BY JOHN CHEEVER Edited by Franklin
H. Dennis (Sven Birkerts, NY Times Book Review)
-PROFILE:
THE CHEEVER CHRONICLE: A DAUGHTER'S BOOK (GLENN COLLINS, NY Times)
-REVIEW:
Elizabeth Hardwick: Cheever, or The Ambiguities, NY Review of Books
Home Before Dark by Susan
Cheever
-REVIEW:
of HOME BEFORE DARK. By Susan Cheever (Christopher Lehmann-Haupt,
NY times)
-REVIEW:
of TREETOPS A Family Memoir. By Susan Cheever (Jane Smiley, NY Times
Book Review)
-REVIEW:
of JOHN CHEEVER A Biography. By Scott Donaldson (Lorrie Moore, NY Times
Book Review)
-REVIEW:
of John Cheever A Biography By Scott Donaldson (MICHIKO KAKUTANI,
NY Times)
-ARTICLE:
Cheever's Widow Suing to Stop Publication of Story Collection (HERBERT
MITGANG, NY times)
-REVIEW:
of UNCOLLECTING CHEEVER The Family of John Cheever vs. Academy
Chicago Publishers (Richard Dooling, NY Times Book Review)
-REVIEW:
of UNCOLLECTING CHEEVER. [ The Family of John Cheever vs.
Academy Chicago Publishers ] by ANITA MILLER (Peter Kurth, Salon)
-REVIEW:
of Uncollecting Cheever (Dave Reid, Foreword Magazine)
GENERAL:
-LINKS:
American Writers and Their Works: The 20th Century
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