Falconer

by John Cheever

Overview

Falconer is a prison and Farragut is the convicted man. This is the story of what happens to him.

"FALCONER is John Cheever's most wonderful novel--an unforgettably moving book, both fantastic and real--about a substantial upper middle-class man and the storms of love, nostalgia and of undreamed-of liberation." (Publisher's Source)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780307760715
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	07/26/2010
Series:	Vintage International
Sold by:	Random House
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	1,004,697
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

John Cheever was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1912. He is the author of seven collections of stories and five novels. His first novel, The Wapshot Chronicle, won the 1958 National Book Award. In 1965 he received the Howells Medal for Fiction from the National Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 1978 The Stories of John Cheever won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Shortly before his death in 1982, he was awarded the National Medal for Literature from the Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.

Date of Birth:

May 27, 1912

Date of Death:

June 18, 1982

Place of Birth:

Quincy, Massachusetts

Place of Death:

Ossining, New York

Education:

Thayer Academy

What People are Saying About This

Saul Bellow

Falconer is splendid. It is rough, it is elegant, it is pure. It is also indispensable, if you earnestly desire to know what is happening to the human soul in the U.S.A.

Editorial Reviews

....Falconer seems to be a conventional novel of crime, punishment and redemption. -- The New York Times Books of the Century

Charles McGrath

A masterpiece…an extraordinary work of art.
—Saturday Review

John Gardner

"Cheever's triumph.... A great American novel." --Newsweek

"One of the most important novels of our time.... Read it and be ennobled." --The New York Times

"Falconer is splendid. It is rough, it is elegant, it is pure. It is also indispensable, if you earnestly desire to know what is happening to the human soul in the U.S.A." --Saul Bellow

"One of our truly fine writers.... The novel proceeds directly on its course, taking the reader along with it.... Moving and excellent." --The Washington Post

"John Cheever is an enchanted realist, and his voice ... is as rich and distinctive as any of the leading voices of postwar American literature." --Philip Roth

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