Home Before DarkIn Home Before Dark, Susan Cheever, daughter of the famously talented writer John Cheever, uses previously unpublished letters, journals, and her own precious memories to create a candid and insightful tribute to her father. While producing some of the most beloved and celebrated American literature of this century, John Cheever wrestled with personal demons that deeply affected his family life as well as his career. In this poignant memoir of a man driven by boundless genius and ambition, Susan Cheever writes with heartwrenching honesty of family life with the father, the writer, and the remarkable man she loved. |
Selected WorksAddiction
Literary History
American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau
Transcendentalism--the story behind the scenes. Biography
My Name Is Bill: Bill Wilson--His Life and the Creation of Alcoholics Anonymous
"As a biography of one of the most humane and beneficial Americans who ever lived, it is a national treasure." --Kurt Vonnegut Memoir
As Good As I Could Be
Raising wonderful children in a difficult world Home Before Dark
A poignant memoir of a man driven by boundless genius and ambition. Treetops
"Ms. Cheever's. . . coolly intelligent perspective. . . provides a clear, hard-edged picture of the snobbery, sexism, anti-Semitism adultery, alcoholism, and emotional dishonesty that were part and parcel of those swimming pools and tennis courts." --Wall Street Journal Novels
Elizabeth Cole
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1989 Doctors and Women
Clarkson N. Potter, 1987 The Cage
Houghton Mifflin, 1982. Paperback: Random House, 1983. A Handsome Man
Simon & Schuster, 1981. Paperback: Ballantine Group: 1982. Looking for Work
Simon & Schuster, 1980. Paperback: Fawcett, 1982. |