num_pages: 400
description: "Heartrending...Can be read as a writer's notebook, a family chronicle, a brutally honest autobiography, and almost as an unfinished novel...A daring contribution to American letters."--New York Times
language: English
title: The Journals of John Cheever
titlecomplete: The Journals of John Cheever
genres: Essays, Biography, Writing, Diary, Autobiography, Nonfiction, Journal, History, Memoir, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 756
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Ambassador Book Award
category: American Arts & Letters, awardedAt: 662716800000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Biography/Autobiography
publisher: Random House Value Publishing