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Simmaren
Av John Cheever
Inbunden, 2019
4,3 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (6)
296 kr
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”Det lilla samhället hänger, i såväl moraliskt som ekonomiskt hänseende, i en tunn tråd, men det hänger i sin tråd i det svaga kvällsljuset.” John Cheever kallades ”sovstädernas Tjechov” och blottlade det som efterkrigstidens USA inte ville kännas vid: otrohet, alkoholism, rasism, karriärism. Här …
Oh What A Paradise It Seems
Av John Cheever
Häftad, 1994
124 kr
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In an idyllic American village, elderly romantic Lemuel Sears still has it in him to fall wildly in love with strangers of both sexes. But Sears's paradise is under threat; the pond he loves is being fouled by unscrupulous polluters involved in organised crime. Can Sears thwart the monstrous …
Wapshot Chronicle
Av John Cheever
Häftad, 1998
139 kr
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Meet the Wapshots of St Botolphs. There is Captain Leander Wapshot, venerable sea-dog and would-be suicide; his licentious older son, Moses; and Moses's adoring and errant younger brother, Coverly. Tragic and funny, ribald and splendidly picaresque, and partly based on Cheever's adolescence in New …
Collected Stories
Av John Cheever
Häftad, 1990
190 kr
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John Cheever’s Collected Stories explores the delicate psychological frameworks of 20th century suburbia.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HANIF KUREISHIThis outstanding collection by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist John Cheever shows the power and range of one of the finest short story writers of the last …
Vision of the World
Selected Short Stories
Av John Cheever
Häftad, 2023
149 kr
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Selected and Introduced by Booker-Prize winner Julian Barnes'Reading Cheever is a restless pleasure, the work never settles: these brilliant stories make me get up and walk around the room' Anne Enright John Cheever - the 'Chekhov of the suburbs' - forever altered the landscape of contemporary …
Falconer
Av John Cheever
Häftad, 2014
136 kr
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Discover John Cheever’s quirky psychological novel that is the perfect book club read.Ezekiel Farragut is a college professor, a drug-addict and a murderer. Locked in Falconer State Penitentiary, he struggles through tormenting visits from his wife, the burden of memory and guilt, and the brutal …
Journals
Av John Cheever
Häftad, 2009
165 kr
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John Cheever's journals reveal the inner life of this remarkable writer and the contradictions that drove him. He loved his wife and their children, but was acutely lonely; he loved women, but he also loved men; he hated himself for his drinking, but for much of his life was dependent upon it; he …
Bullet Park
Av John Cheever
Häftad, 1992
152 kr
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Eliot Nailles loves his wife and son to distraction; Paul Hammer is a bastard named after a common household tool. Neighbours in Bullet Park, the two become fatefully linked by the mysterious binding power of their names in Cheever's sharp and funny hymn to the dubious normality of the American …
Jewels of the Cabots
Av John Cheever
E-bok, 2016
16 kr
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A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection Wandering about the sleepy Connecticut town of his childhood, where residents lead lives of grueling boredom, a journalist reminisces about the Cabot children: Molly, a sweet girl and his first love; Geneva who pilfered her mother’s diamonds from the …
Wapshot Scandal
With an Introduction by Dave Eggers
Av John Cheever
E-bok, 2010
102 kr
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVE EGGERSOnce upon a time the Wapshots of St. Botolphs were distinguished for their unshakeable good opinion of themselves. But the family members have drifted far from their New England village - and into the demented caprices of the mighty, the bad graces of the IRS and …
Bullet Park
Av John Cheever
E-bok, 2010
100 kr
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Eliot Nailles loves his wife and son to distraction; Paul Hammer is a bastard named after a common household tool. Neighbours in Bullet Park, the two become fatefully linked by the mysterious binding power of their names in Cheever's sharp and funny hymn to the dubious normality of the American …
Collected Stories
Av John Cheever
E-bok, 2010
102 kr
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John Cheever’s Collected Stories explores the delicate psychological frameworks of 20th century suburbia.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HANIF KUREISHIThis outstanding collection by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist John Cheever shows the power and range of one of the finest short story writers of the last …
Oh What A Paradise It Seems
Av John Cheever
E-bok, 2010
102 kr
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In an idyllic American village, elderly romantic Lemuel Sears still has it in him to fall wildly in love with strangers of both sexes. But Sears's paradise is under threat; the pond he loves is being fouled by unscrupulous polluters involved in organised crime. Can Sears thwart the monstrous …
Wapshot Chronicle
Av John Cheever
E-bok, 2010
102 kr
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Meet the Wapshots of St Botolphs. There is Captain Leander Wapshot, venerable sea-dog and would-be suicide; his licentious older son, Moses; and Moses's adoring and errant younger brother, Coverly. Tragic and funny, ribald and splendidly picaresque, and partly based on Cheever's adolescence in New …
Letters of John Cheever
Av John Cheever
E-bok, 2011
147 kr
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAY MCINERNEYJohn Cheever's letters offer a tantalising glimpse into the life of a writer. They include correspondence with his contemporaries, such as Philip Roth, John Updike and Saul Bellow, his days as a young, aspiring writer and his battles with bisexuality and …
Journals
Av John Cheever
E-bok, 2011
125 kr
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John Cheever's journals reveal the inner life of this remarkable writer and the contradictions that drove him. He loved his wife and their children, but was acutely lonely; he loved women, but he also loved men; he hated himself for his drinking, but for much of his life was dependent upon it; he …
Falconer
Av John Cheever
E-bok, 2014
102 kr
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Discover John Cheever’s quirky psychological novel that is the perfect book club read.Ezekiel Farragut is a college professor, a drug-addict and a murderer. Locked in Falconer State Penitentiary, he struggles through tormenting visits from his wife, the burden of memory and guilt, and the brutal …
Drinking
Vintage Minis
Av John Cheever
E-bok, 2017
61 kr
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What’s the worst another drink could do? John Cheever pours out our most sociable of vices, and hands it to us in a highball. From the calculating teenager who raids her parents’ liquor cabinet, only to drown her sorrows in it, to the suburban swimmer withering away with every plunge he takes, …
Vision of the World
Selected Short Stories
Av John Cheever
E-bok, 2021
102 kr
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Selected and Introduced by Booker-Prize winner Julian Barnes'Reading Cheever is a restless pleasure, the work never settles: these brilliant stories make me get up and walk around the room' Anne Enright John Cheever - the 'Chekhov of the suburbs' - forever altered the landscape of contemporary …
Drinking
Vintage Minis
Av John Cheever
Häftad, 2017
87 kr
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What’s the worst another drink could do? John Cheever pours out our most sociable of vices, and hands it to us in a highball. From the calculating teenager who raids her parents’ liquor cabinet, only to drown her sorrows in it, to the suburban swimmer withering away with every plunge he takes, …
El Nadador Y Otros Cuentos (Edición Ilustrada) / The Swimmer and Other Stories ( Illustraded Edition)
Av John Cheever
Inbunden, 2026
351 kr
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Cuentos John Cheever / Collected Stories. John Cheever
Av John Cheever
Häftad, 2026
331 kr
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Wapshot Scandal
With an Introduction by Dave Eggers
Av John Cheever
Häftad, 2009
175 kr
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVE EGGERSOnce upon a time the Wapshots of St. Botolphs were distinguished for their unshakeable good opinion of themselves. But the family members have drifted far from their New England village - and into the demented caprices of the mighty, the bad graces of the IRS and …
The Wapshot Chronicle
Av John Cheever
Häftad, 2021
207 kr
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • Pulitzer Prize winner John Cheever’s classic novel about one eccentric New England family, inspired by the author's own adolescence. The Wapshots have called the quintessential Massachusetts fishing village of St. Botolphs home for eons, but now it is time for the next …
