Includes bibliographical references (p. 370-371) and index.
Contents:
John Cheever's Bullet Park: the suburbs were never more unreal / Anis Shivani. Biography of John Cheever / Francis J. Bosha -- The Paris review perspective / J. D. Mitchell for The Paris review -- Cheever through the lens of language: bridges of entanglement and bewilderment / Samuel Chase Coale -- Portents of the abyss: Cheever's suburban fiction in historical context / Robert Beuka -- Updike, Cheever, and short fiction / James A. Schiff -- John Cheever: critical reception / Francis J. Bosha -- From subject to object and back again: individual identity in John Cheever's fiction / Robert G. Collins -- John Cheever's surreal vision and the bridge of language / Wayne Stengel -- John Cheever: suburban romancer / Samuel Chase Coale -- Supermarket and superhighway: John Cheever's America / Scott Donaldson -- From parallels to paradise: the lyrical structure of Cheever's fiction / Robert A. Morace -- Writing the Cheever / Scott Donaldson -- John Cheever's contingent imagination / Daniel T. O'Hara -- The facts in black and white: Cheever's Falconer, Wideman's Philadelphia fire Robert A. Morace -- What we keep: time and balance in the brother stories of John Cheever / David Raney -- John Cheever and the management of Middlebrow misery / Timothy Aubry -- A farewell to goodbyes: reconciling the past in Cheever's "Goodbye, my brother" / Peter Mathews -- John Cheever's Bullet Park: the suburbs were never more unreal / Anis Shivani.
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