Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Each of the twenty-five short chapters that make up Home Before Dark seems to be written as a separate diary entry, with the daughter warmly circling around the ghost of her father until she has "worked him out for herself." There is a feeling in this book that everything was meant as a therapeutic exercise for one daughter's unusually strong affiliation with...
...cavillers cry out against such an alleged "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...
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...
...addition to providing choice literary gossip, Home Before Dark is good, though brief, literary criticism. By examining her father's personality, Susan Cheever throws an interesting light on his stylistic preoccupations...
...sweetest surprise of Home Before Dark is how much of John Cheever's magical voice has been inherited in Susan Cheever. At the end of the book, the daughter evokes the her melancholy after John Cheever's death in 1982--the tone is vintage Papa...