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Suburban ghetto:
John Cheever, misread and misunderstood
By Jonathan Dee
Jonathan Dee’s fifth novel, The Privileges, will be published by Random House next year. His last essay for Harper’s Magazine, on Deborah Eisenberg, appeared in the June 2006 issue.
Discussed in this essay:
Cheever: A Life, by Blake Bailey. Alfred A. Knopf. 784 pages. $35.
Collected Stories and Other Writings, by John Cheever. Edited by Blake Bailey. Library of America. 1,040 pages. $35.
Complete Novels, by John Cheever. Edited by Blake Bailey. Library of America. 960 pages. $35.
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