John Cheever

John Cheever

Nacimiento : 1912-05-27, Quincy, Massachusetts, USA

Muerte : 1982-06-18

Historia

John William Cheever (May 27, 1912 – June 18, 1982) was an American novelist and short story writer. He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs". His fiction is mostly set in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the Westchester suburbs, old New England villages based on various South Shore towns around Quincy, Massachusetts, where he was born, and Italy, especially Rome. He is "now recognized as one of the most important short fiction writers of the 20th century." While Cheever is perhaps best remembered for his short stories (including "The Enormous Radio", "Goodbye, My Brother", "The Five-Forty-Eight", "The Country Husband", and "The Swimmer"), he also wrote four novels, comprising The Wapshot Chronicle (National Book Award, 1958), The Wapshot Scandal (William Dean Howells Medal, 1965), Bullet Park (1969), Falconer (1977) and a novella Oh What a Paradise It Seems (1982). From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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John Cheever
John Cheever

Películas

Parc
Parc
Novel
Georges Nail vive en un barrio nuevo. Está casado, ama a su esposa, hijo y perro. Paul Hammer es guapo, rico e inteligente. Pero él está destrozado por su severo juicio del mundo y el deseo de ser parte de él. Un día, sus caminos se encuentran. Nail ve este encuentro como una oportunidad para crear una nueva amistad. Por su parte, Hammer lo ve como una nueva razón para vivir: para crucificar la imagen perfecta del hombre feliz occidental y su encarnación en la persona de Georges Nail. Un clavo es la víctima perfecta para un martillo.
The Shady Hill Kidnapping
The Shady Hill Kidnapping
Writer
John Cheever's wry comedy of errors comes to the screen in this filmed presentation from the Broadway Theatre Archive. An upper-middle-class suburb is turned upside-down by the apparent kidnapping of Toby Wooster (Garrett Hanf). Unaware that the whole thing is a setup, the town swings into action to raise funds to meet the kidnappers' ransom demands. George Grizzard, Polly Holliday, Katharine Balfour and Celeste Holm star.
The Shady Hill Kidnapping
The Shady Hill Kidnapping
Narrator
John Cheever's wry comedy of errors comes to the screen in this filmed presentation from the Broadway Theatre Archive. An upper-middle-class suburb is turned upside-down by the apparent kidnapping of Toby Wooster (Garrett Hanf). Unaware that the whole thing is a setup, the town swings into action to raise funds to meet the kidnappers' ransom demands. George Grizzard, Polly Holliday, Katharine Balfour and Celeste Holm star.
The Five Forty-Eight
The Five Forty-Eight
Story
The Five Forty-Eight, drawn from a Cheever story about the fictional New York suburb of Shady Hill, concerns an advertising man, John Blake (Laurence Luckinbill), who is emotionally estranged from his wife and those around him. His disturbed secretary, Miss Dent (Mary Beth Hurt), whom he has seduced and then fired and discarded, pursues him harrowingly, and in a final scene in which she holds him at gunpoint in a field beyond the Shady Hill railroad station, she forces him to confront the squalor of his life.
O Youth and Beauty!
O Youth and Beauty!
Story
Cash Bentley and his wife Louise lead an average upper-middle-class life in suburbia, with a nice home and two fine children. But Cash grows increasingly unsettled in his life, yearning for the glories of his athletic youth and watching them fade further in the distance with accumulating age. Louise worries about him as his difficulties with mid-life pull him further away from happiness and comfort with his family.
The Sorrows of Gin
The Sorrows of Gin
Story
An affluent suburban couple's empty and gin-fueled lives are observed through the eyes of their neglected, eight-year old daughter.
El nadador
El nadador
Story
Ned Merrill vive en una zona residencial de clase alta en las afueras de Connecticut. Una día, Ned se da cuenta de que todo el valle donde vive está lleno de piscinas privadas. Ante el asombro de sus amigos, Ned decide recorrer el valle de piscina en piscina hasta llegar a su casa. Por el camino, se encuentra a varias de las mujeres que formaron parte de su vida: una apasionada adolescente a punto de dejar de serlo, una ex amante despechada, la sensual esposa de un viejo amigo...