Volume 31, Number 20 · December 20, 1984
Cheever, or The Ambiguities
By Elizabeth Hardwick
Home Before Dark
by Susan Cheever
Houghton Mifflin, 243 pp., $15.95
In his last years, John Cheever, a man more disorderly than his proud art and his courteous, somewhat remote, manners revealed, tried to set his house in order. After a heart attack nearly fatal, he gave up a fervent addiction to alcohol, quit smoking—and all the while he was preparing to die of cancer.
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