Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...began rebelling in college. As an English honors major at the University of Pennsylvania, she insisted, despite faculty reservations, upon doing her thesis on black Novelists James Baldwin and Ralph Ellison. She met a young man in her freshman year, married him as a sophomore, gave birth to a daughter in her junior year and got a divorce before graduating. Allred went on to earn a master's degree in English education at New York University, taught at an all-black boys' school in Philadelphia, then moved to Los Angeles to teach in the Watts ghetto after...
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...
...writer. In the early 1960s, when Cheever's first novel. The Wapshot Scandal, began winning awards, and when his reputation as a New Yorker short story staff writer seemed assured, he felt himself on top of the world. But success and celebrity took big toll on Cheever. His daughter claims he became "quite pompous about himself," and his drinking, which had always been heavy according to the socially acceptable fashion of New York literati, became increasingly so. And as Cheever became aware of his homosexuality, his embarrassment over the fact, and his fear of being discovered, further intensified his alcoholism...
...Susan Cheever is too unblinking, too unabashed as dredging up the most compromising tidbits recorded by her father in his unreleased journals, to ever lose her credibility. Although enormously self-absorbed, the John Cheever we get here made a very positive impact on his daughter: "We had wonderful times. A simpler way to put this is that my father loved his children. The three of us were, as he said, 'the roof and settle' of his existence. As individuals we often displeased him, but as a unit we were cherished and indispensable...
...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...