Geburtsdatum | Montag, 27. Mai 1912 |
Geburtsort | Quincy, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Todesort | Ossining_(village),_New_York |
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Beschreibung | John William Cheever (May 27, 1912 – June 18, 1982) was an American short story writer and novelist. He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs". His fiction is mostly set in the Upper East Side of Manhattan; the Westchester suburbs; old New England villages based on various South Shore towns around Quincy, Massachusetts, where he was born; and Italy, especially Rome. His short stories included "The Enormous Radio", "Goodbye, My Brother", "The Five-Forty-Eight", "The Country Husband", and "The Swimmer", and he also wrote five novels: The Wapshot Chronicle (National Book Award, 1958),The Wapshot Scandal (William Dean Howells Medal, 1965), Bullet Park (1969), Falconer (1977) and a novella Oh What a Paradise It Seems (1982). |
Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.
Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.
For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.
It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.
The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.
