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...JOHN CHEEVER never beat his daughter with a coat hanger: he never made her eat raw meat on her hands and knees: and he never hit her over the head with a bottle of bathroom cleaner...
...Susan Cheever write Home Before Dark, a "biographical memoir" of her father -- published a mere two years after his death, and revealing his hidden triad of dark sins: alcoholism, marital strife, and homosexuality...
...Daddy Dearest," but don't listen to them. Home Before Dark might unearth some spicy secrets, but it is not sensational: and while it may occasionally embarrass some friends and relatives, it remains loving and sincere to the memory of America's great short story writer and novelist, John Cheever...
...forty-one years old, Susan Cheever is the eldest of the Cheever offspring, and apparently the one most intimately involved with her father. She has published three well-reviewed novels, and worked as a journalist for Newsweek. In 1977, she wrote the cover story Newsweek ran on Cheever that painted him as a cultivated literary bonhomme exuding all the charm and complacency of the Boston Brahmin upbringing he never...
That was the church-going, dog-loving country squire facade that John Cheever loved to present. The complex and difficult man Susan Cheever unravels in Home Before Dark is of a different breed altogether...