Falconer
- ISBN-10
- 0307760715
- ISBN-13
- 9780307760715
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 224
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-07-26
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Author
- John Cheever
Description
Stunning and brutally powerful, Falconer 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. Only John Cheever could deliver these grand themes with the irony, unforced eloquence, and exhilarating humor that make Falconer such a triumphant work of the moral imagination.
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