John Cheever was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1912. He is the author of seven collections of stories and five novels. His first novel,
The Wapshot Chronicle, 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
The Stories of John Cheever won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Shortly before his death in 1982, he was awarded the National Medal for Literature from the Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Stunning and brutally powerful, "one of the most important novels of our time" (The New York Times) 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. 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
Falconer such a triumphant work of the moral imagination.
"Cheever's triumph.... A great American novel." —
Newsweek"One of the most important novels of our time.... Read it and be ennobled." —
The New York Times"
Falconer is splendid. It is rough, it is elegant, it is pure. It is also indispensable, if you earnestly desire to know what is happening to the human soul in the U.S.A." —Saul Bellow
"One of our truly fine writers.... The novel proceeds directly on its course, taking the reader along with it.... Moving and excellent." —
The Washington Post“John Cheever is an enchanted realist, and his voice ... is as rich and distinctive as any of the leading voices of postwar American literature.” —Philip Roth
Ezekiel Farragut erlebt die Hölle auf Erden: Der drogensüchtige Universitätsdozent kommt ins Gefängnis Falconer, nachdem er mit einem Schürhaken seinen Bruder erschlagen hat. Wer aber von ihnen war Kain? Wer Abel? In der brutalen, trostlosen Gefängniswelt erlebt Farragut unerwartet eine intensive Liebe zu einem Mitgefangenen. Er lässt seine Ehe und Kindheit Revue passieren und erkennt, wie umfassend seine Unfreiheit ist und schon immer war. Bald hat er nur noch einen Gedanken: Flucht. Falconer ist der Roman eines Süchtigen, der die Drogenabhängigkeit und die Schranken der Strafanstalt hinter sich lässt. Ein bewegendes Buch, drastisch, ironisch und doch von lebenskluger Heiterkeit. John Cheever, der einige Jahre im Hochsicherheitsgefängnis Sing Sing unterrichtete, zeichnet in Willkommen in Falconer das facettenreiche, ungeschönte Porträt eines Menschen, der den Wert seines Lebens erst zu schätzen weiß, als er es zu verlieren droht.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Stunning and brutally powerful, "one of the most important novels of our time" (The New York Times) 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. 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
Falconer such a triumphant work of the moral imagination.
"Cheever's triumph.... A great American novel."
Newsweek"One of the most important novels of our time.... Read it and be ennobled."
The New York Times"
Falconer is splendid. It is rough, it is elegant, it is pure. It is also indispensable, if you earnestly desire to know what is happening to the human soul in the U.S.A." Saul Bellow
"One of our truly fine writers.... The novel proceeds directly on its course, taking the reader along with it.... Moving and excellent."
The Washington Post John Cheever is an enchanted realist, and his voice ... is as rich and distinctive as any of the leading voices of postwar American literature. Philip Roth
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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.
