Falconer

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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 back 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.

In a nightmarish prison a convict named Farragut--a professor, drug addict, and a ...

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Overview

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 back 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.

In a nightmarish prison a convict named Farragut--a professor, drug addict, and a fratricide--struggles to remain a man. "One of the most important novels of our time . . . Read it and be ennobled."--Los Angeles Times.

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Editorial Reviews

Charles McGrath
....Falconer seems to be a conventional novel of crime, punishment and redemption. -- The New York Times Books of the Century
John Gardner
A masterpiece…an extraordinary work of art.
—Saturday Review
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780679737865
  • Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 1/28/1992
  • Series: Vintage International Series
  • Edition description: First Vintage International edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 224
  • Sales rank: 337,448
  • Product dimensions: 5.13 (w) x 7.99 (h) x 0.59 (d)

Meet the Author

John Cheever
A master of the short story, John Cheever helped make the New Yorker's fiction section a reliably good read from the 1950s up until his death in the early '80s. Often featuring unhappy, upper-middle-class characters, Cheever depicted the underside of living well with an unwavering eye.

Biography

John Cheever, best known for his short stories dealing with upper-middle-class suburban life, was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1912. Cheever published his first short story at the age of seventeen. He was the recipient of a 1951 Guggenheim Fellowship and winner of a National Book Award for The Wapshot Chronicle in 1958, the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Stories of John Cheever, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and an American Book Award. He died in 1982, at the age of seventy.

Author biography courtesy of HarperCollins.

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    1. Date of Birth:
      May 27, 1912
    2. Place of Birth:
      Quincy, Massachusetts
    1. Date of Death:
      June 18, 1982
    2. Place of Death:
      Ossining, New York
    1. Education:
      Thayer Academy

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 22, 2001

    Not for nothing has this book been called a 'Great American Novel'

    In his early middle age, after three novels and scads of short stories in magazines like the New Yorker, Cheever produced his masterpiece: a work about a married-but-homosexual heroin addict who shot his brother and is now in prison, most of the plot related in flashback. 'Farragut, Farragut, why is you an addict?' asks his guard, rhetorically, and the flashbacks give us insight into his life. The writing is luminous yet very accessible. As in all Cheever works, a heady blend of comedy and tragedy are at work, or to use the $10 words, satire and pathos. I think the reader who is willing to put aside his/her notions of good taste and tackle this book will be handsomely rewarded.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 11, 2013

    Sunspots

    No ur not. Cloud is resisting me many ways even though im trying...she looked at him. There are plenty other she cats in that clan that need mates. I dont even know if im with cloud. we van still be very close friends like me amd spiritfang.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 11, 2013

    Falconpaw

    Yeah...and theyll not be as sweet as you...pads back to camp anyways

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 1, 2012

    May i join

    Im Blazepelt. I would like to be deputy or warrior if that is ok

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 22, 2012

    Firehunters need members

    To join search bottle third result

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 22, 2012

    Scatterkit

    Tumbke out of the medicen den and tovthe fresh kill pile

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 21, 2012

    @

    A pair of golden eyes appears in the shadows, looks around, and then jumps on Nebula, taking the larger cat to the ground. "I'm here," he says to the cats of Falconclan. "How can I help?"

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 21, 2012

    Snowbird to Flightsong

    I just got here so i have no idea who were suposed to fight besides Hollyclaw.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 21, 2012

    A baby

    A baby boy crawls in and starts crying

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 21, 2012

    Geckoleaf

    I give the wounded cats cobwebs and poppyseeds. "Just ignore them now," l mew. "You need to heal." I pad out, a black cat following silently.+Geckoleaf

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 2, 2012

    Join fernclan

    At zebra first result

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 21, 2012

    Skyleap

    YO! MOVE YO FAT HAUNCHES OVA!! *a slender white cat with eyes tha reflected the sky pounces in. she has a golden chain with the letters SKY on the end studded with diamonds and a bright neon orange hat turned sideways tha is too big for her on her head, slightly lopsided. One ear sticks out from underneath* X3 SUP KIDDIES???? SKY IN DA HOUSE!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 21, 2012

    Crosspaw

    "I can help"

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 20, 2012

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 23, 2012

    Nebula

    Lets go

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 21, 2012

    Blood

    Blood walks along the old camp. He smells FalconClan's old scent. "Their at "Flight" and this time I will destroy" He murmurs.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 21, 2012

    Waterclaw

    Looked around cool so were is the warriors den

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 19, 2012

    Owlkit

    Thank you!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 19, 2012

    Grey to kit

    She licked the kit gently and let it drink her milk.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 18, 2012

    May i join?

    •Description:A sleek dark navy blue shecat with one lime green eye and one electric blue eye. Both eyes have white specks sprinkled around like stars. •Age: 12 moons •Status: Mateless Clanless Kitless •Position: Warrior or Queen •History: Classified

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