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John Cheever war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller.

✵ 27. Mai 1912 – 18. Juni 1982  •  Andere Namen جان چیور
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“.. for the dead fish was striped like a cat and the sky was striped like the fish and the conch was whorled like an ear and the beach was ribbed like a dog's mouth and the movables in the surf splintered and crashed like the walls of Jericho.”

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John Cheever buch The Wapshot Chronicle

The Wapshot Chronicle (1957)

“The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.”

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John Cheever

The Sixties, 1963 entry.
The Journals of John Cheever (1991)

“He was a tall man with an astonishing and somehow elegant curvature of the spine, formed by an enlarged lower abdomen, which he carried in a stately and contented way, as if it contained money and securities.”

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John Cheever

Description of a Yankee rector, in The Wapshot Scandal (1964).

“I sometimes go back to walk through the ghostly remains of Sutton Place where the rude, new buildings stand squarely in one another’s river views.”

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John Cheever

“Moving Out” Esquire (June 1983).

“His religious requirements—that the service come from Cranmer’s rites in the old prayer book, that it take 33 minutes or less, that the church be within 10 minutes’ driving distance and that the altar be sufficiently simple so that it wouldn’t remind him of a gift shop—limited his choice of parishes.”

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John Cheever

Susan Cheever, Home before Dark Houghton Mifflin (1984).

“People named John and Mary never divorce. For better or for worse, in madness and in saneness, they seem bound together for eternity by their rudimentary nomenclature. They may loathe and despise one another, quarrel, weep, and commit mayhem, but they are not free to divorce. Tom, Dick, and Harry can go to Reno on a whim, but nothing short of death can separate John and Mary.”

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John Cheever

The Sixties, 1966 entry.
The Journals of John Cheever (1991)

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