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Oh What a Paradise It Seems is a 1982 novella by John Cheever. It is Cheever's last work of fiction, published shortly before his death from cancer.
Jan 1, 2001 · But Sears's paradise is threatened; the pond he loves is being fouled by unscrupulous polluters. In Cheever's accomplished hands the battle between an elderly romantic and the monstrous aspects of late-twentieth-century civilization becomes something ribald, poignant, and ineffably joyful.
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Aug 21, 2021 · English. 99 pages ; 22 cm. The story of an old man's search for love is told through a constellation of events: the struggle to save a pond from pollution, the murder of a gallant scientist, and an exquisite but fleeting affair with the beautiful woman he sees in a bank line. Access-restricted-item.
Jan 15, 1992 · Published just a month before the author's tragic death from cancer, John Cheever's 'Oh What a Paradise It Seems' is a short, sharp novella which crystalised the author's unique, startling and wonderfully accurate depictions of individual character, and of suburban America.
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- John Cheever
- John Cheever
But Sears’s paradise is threatened; the pond he loves is being fouled by unscrupulous polluters. In Cheever’s accomplished hands the battle between an elderly romantic and the monstrous aspects of late-twentieth-century civilization becomes something ribald, poignant, and ineffably joyful.
- John Cheever
- Paperback
Jan 1, 1982 · Published just a month before the author's tragic death from cancer, John Cheever's 'Oh What a Paradise It Seems' is a short, sharp novella which crystalised the author's unique, startling and wonderfully accurate depictions of individual character, and of suburban America.
- John Cheever
Knopf, 1982 - Fiction - 99 pages. "John Cheever's last novel is a fable set in a village so idyllic it has no fast-food outlet and having as its protagonist an old man,...
