The Letters of John Cheever

Resumen del libro

John Cheever, novelist, short-story writer, and winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, was "an American master" ("The Boston Globe"). He was also a prolific writer of letters, sending as many as thirty in a week.
These letters, culled from thousands written to famous writers, his family, friends, and lovers, paint an intimate and surprising self-portrait that is as vivid as any character Cheever invented.

Edited and annotated by his son Benjamin, Cheever's letters trace his development as a writer and as a man. They reveal him to be complex, flawed, and full of contradictions. On display are not just his ambitions and weaknesses, or his cloaked bisexuality, but the evolution of his wit and style -- and most of all, his immense love of life.

Biografía del autor

John Cheever (Quincy, Massachusetts, 1912 - Ossining, Nueva York, 1982), cuentista y novelista, es el narrador que mejor ha sabido plasmar las obsesiones y los miedos de la clase media estadounidense que habita en las afueras de los grandes centros urbanos. Autor de grandes novelas como Crónica de los Wapshot (1957), que recibió el National Book Award, El escándalo de los Wapshot (1964) o Falconer (1977), su consagración definitiva le llegó en 1978 con The Stories of John Cheever, que reunía sus mejores relatos. Fue por ello galardonado con el Premio Pulitzer de 1979 y el National Book Award de 1981.