Falconer -- John Cheever

<b>#1<i> NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER - Stunning and brutally powerful, "one of the most important novels of our time" (<i>The New York Times</i>) tells the story of a man named Farragut, his crime and punishment, and his struggle to remain a man in a universe bent on beating him back into childhood.</b> <p/>In a nightmarish prison, out of Farragut's suffering and astonishing salvation, Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Cheever crafted his most powerful work of fiction. Only Cheever could deliver these grand themes with the irony, unforced eloquence, and exhilarating humor that make <i>Falconer </i>such a triumphant work of the moral imagination.<br><br><b>Author:</b> John Cheever<br><b>Publisher:</b> Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group<br><b>Published:</b> 01/15/1992<br><b>Pages:</b> 224<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.45lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.01h x 5.19w x 0.60d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780679737865<br><br><b>Review Citation(s): </b><br><i>New York Times Book Review</i> 03/08/2009 pg. 23<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><b>John Cheever</b> was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1912. He is the author of seven collections of stories and five novels. His first novel, <i>The Wapshot Chronicle, </i> won the 1958 National Book Award. In 1965 he received the Howells Medal for Fiction from the National Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 1978 <i>The Stories of John Cheever</i> won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Shortly before his death i