num_pages: 272
description: In Home Before Dark, Susan Cheever, daughter of the famously talented writer John Cheever, uses previously unpublished letters, journals, and her own precious memories to create a candid and insightful tribute to her father. While producing some of the most beloved and celebrated American literature of this century, John Cheever wrestled with personal demons that deeply affected his family life as well as his career. In this poignant memoir of a man driven by boundless genius and ambition, Susan Cheever writes with heartwrenching honesty of family life with the father, the writer, and the remarkable man she loved.
language: English
title: Home Before Dark (Contemporary Classics
titlecomplete: Home Before Dark (Contemporary Classics (Washington Square Press))
genres: New York, Biography Memoir, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 357
awards: awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Laurence L. & Thomas Winship/PEN New England Award, awardedAt: 441792000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Biography/Autobiography
publisher: Washington Square Press