Cheevey
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Gerald DiPego.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
Subjects: Young men -- United States -- Fiction; Family -- United States -- Fiction
Description: Every family is unhappy in its own way. And the family of Claude Cheever - Cheevey, to his friends - is more unhappy than most. At age twenty, Cheevey lives in a house of ominous silence. Trapped in a passionless marriage, his parents barely talk. His older brother, tormented by old wounds, has removed himself to a world of drinking and brawling. And Cheevey's sister, married, with a young child, is trapped by her own anguished mind games.

Only Cheevey seems to care that things aren't right - that no one connects anymore, that events seem to be spinning out of control. He tries hard to hold his family together, but when he meets Lauren, a young single mother, he suddenly must grapple with his own dilemmas of sex, love, and identity.