Word: cheevers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FICTION Daniel Martin by John Fowles. With little of the narrative trickery that embellished The Magus, the author sends a Hollywood screenwriter on an engrossing psychological pilgrimage that undermines contemporary modish despair. Falconer by John Cheever. The loneliness of prison and memories is the theme of this deeply emotional novel. The Honourable Schoolboy by John le Carré. The further adventures of George Smiley, Britain's unlikeliest superspy, as well as a pitiless dissection of contemporary moral dilemmas. The Professor of Desire by Philip Roth. In presenting yet another of his Jewish intellectual heroes wrestling with sex and guilt...
...Swimmer," one of Cheever's best known works, is about an upper class man who makes a journey around his suburban country by swimming through his neighbors' pools...
...stories I like most I write in the space of 24 hours," Cheever said. "I get excited and have a marvelous time running around the house," he said...
...Cheever said many of his works center on his concern for confinement and liberty. His short stories have shown the "spiritual confinements" of suburbanites, businessmen and expatriates, he added...
...President of the Argentine," which Cheever wrote in Boston two years ago, describes an encounter between a man who wants to put his hat on a statue and a girl who is studying embalming...