Title: Critical essays on John Cheever /
Authors: Collins, Robert G.
Date: 1982
Publisher: G.K. Hall,
Physical description: viii, 292 pages ; 25 cm.
Language: English
LC class: P
Contents: John Cheever's sense of drama / Struthers Burt -- New England and Hollywood / Morris Freedman -- The weeding-out process / David Ray -- Literate, witty, civilized / John Wain -- The hero in the 5:42 : John Cheever's short fiction / Stephen C. Moore -- Beyond the Cheeveresque a style both lyrical and idiosyncratic / George Hunt -- Where have all the roses gone? / Granville Hicks -- John Cheever's golden egg / Stanley Edgar Hyman -- John Cheever and the charms of innocence : the craft of the wapshot scandal / George Garrett -- Cheever's Yankee heritage / Cynthia Ozick -- The way we live now / Joan Didion -- The road through nightmare / George Greene -- Falconer by John Cheever / Joseph McElroy -- Crying in the wilderness / John Leonard -- On miracle row / John Gardner -- John Cheever : the art of fiction LXII / Annette Grant -- Talk with John Cheever / John Hersey -- John Cheever and the grave of social coherence / Clinton S. Burhans, Jr. -- O'Hara, Cheever & Updike / Alfred Kazin -- The domesticated stroke of John Cheever / Eugene Chesnick -- The machines in Cheever's garden / Scott Donaldson -- Icarus at St. Botolphs : a descent to 'unwonted otherness' / Beatrice Greene -- John Cheever's vision of the world / Frederick Bracher -- John Cheever : the 'swimming' of America / Robert M. Slabey -- The symptomatic colors in John Cheever's 'The swimmer' / Nora Calhoun Graves -- Cheever and Hawthorne : the American romancer's art / Samuel Coale -- John Cheever and the promise of pastoral / Frederick R. Karl -- The passion of nostalgia in the short stories of John Cheever / Burton Kendle -- Of that time, of those places : the short stories of John Cheever / Richard H. Rupp -- Cheever's expatriates / John L. Brown -- Witchcraft in Bullet park / John Gardner -- John Cheever's Bullet park : a key to his thought and art / Lynne Waldeland -- John Cheever and the development of the American novel / Theo D'haen -- A Cheever bibliography supplement, 1978-1981 / Dennis Coates.
Notes: Includes index.