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100 years of John Cheever: A self-styled ‘spy’ among the American middle class : Comments

By Kees Bakhuijzen, published 24/5/2012

Cheever tore away the stereotypical façade of suburban happiness in his descriptions of postwar American suburbia.

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A great author review Kees.

Sounds like Cheever painfully generated the themes of his works in ways he wished he wasn't. Goes to show most great authors have fairly tragic lives.

I looked up Cheever's works on the net. His short story 'The Swimmer' is online in full http://shortstoryclassics.50megs.com/cheeverswimmer.html .

Pete
Posted by plantagenet, Thursday, 24 May 2012 12:11:01 PM
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What an excellent review. Hope Forum readers will get to read more reviews by Kees. I'm going to have to scour the Dutch broadsheets for some of Kees' other articles.

Thanks for the link Pete.
Posted by yvonne, Thursday, 31 May 2012 9:32:22 AM
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