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John Cheever: Complete Novels: The Wapshot Chronicle / The Wapshot Scandal / Bullet Park / Falconer / Oh What a Paradise It Seems (Library of America No. 189) (edit title/settings)

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Published to coincide with editor Blake Bailey’s groundbreaking new biography, here are the five novels of John Cheever, together in one volume for the first time. In these dazzling works Cheever laid bare the failings and foibles of not just the ascendant postwar elite but also the fallen... read more

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The main entrance to Falconer — the only entrance for convicts, their visitors and the staff — was crowned by an escutcheon representing Liberty, Justice and, between the two, the sovereign power of the government.

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