num_pages: 211
description: Stunning and brutally powerful, Falconer tells the story of a man named Farragut, his crime and punishment, and his struggle to remain a man in a universe bent on beating him backwards into childhood. Only John Cheever could deliver these grand themes with the irony, unforced eloquence, and exhilarating humor that make Falconer such a triumphant work of the moral imagination.
language: English
title: Falconer
titlecomplete: Falconer
characters: Ezekiel Farragut
genres: Fiction, American, Crime, Queer, LGBT, Literature, Classics, Novels, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 8242
awards: awardedAt: 220953600000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Vintage