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Both more and less goes on in the Cheever villages of The World of Apples. His characters are indelibly New Englanders: reserved, though-tridden, hoping to act both well and right. They are much easier to get a handle on than the passionately self-indulgent and upwardly-mobile citizens of my fair suburb. And. in Cheever, there is still an air of sanctity to the towns themselves: his people still cherish the idea of community, even if all the familiar points of reference, the town halls and the churches, are flying off in pinwheel motion. Cheever is still writing about...
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