Home Before Dark
- ISBN-10
- 1501124641
- ISBN-13
- 9781501124648
- Series
- Home Before Dark
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-09-01
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Author
- Susan Cheever
Description
In Home Before Dark, Susan Cheever, daughter of the famously talented writer John Cheever, uses previously unpublished letters, journals, and her own precious memories to create a candid and insightful tribute to her father. While producing some of the most beloved and celebrated American literature of this century, John Cheever wrestled with personal demons that deeply affected his family life as well as his career. In this poignant memoir of a man driven by boundless genius and ambition, Susan Cheever writes with heartwrenching honesty of family life with the father, the writer, and the remarkable man she loved.
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