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...devoted to writing, but Cheever happily spends afternoons doing an exurban homeowner's chores and errands for his busy wife, who teaches English literature three days a week at nearby Briardiff College. Every Sunday he attends 8 a.m. Communion at All Saints Episcopal Church. He delights in dancing, enjoys his liquor with zest. His courtesy is immaculate, but in speech he is elliptical to the point of exasperation, with a tendency to finish only one in four of his sentences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Novelists: Ovid in Ossining | 3/27/1964 | See Source »

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