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Cheever

[ chee-ver ]

noun

  1. John, 1912–82, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.


Cheever

/ ˈʃːə /

noun

  1. CheeverJohn19121982MUSWRITING: novelistWRITING: short-story writer John. 1912–82, US novelist and short-story writer. His novels include The Wapshot Chronicle (1957) and Bullet Park (1969)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Years later, Susan Cheever, writing in The Times, called it “a scream of marital rage.”

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“Being embraced and sustained by the light-green water,” Cheever writes, “seemed not as much a pleasure as the resumption of a natural condition.”

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Unaccountably, the actress is given the name Julia Cheever, a herring so far past red it’s bleeding.

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Theoretically, as in John Cheever’s 1964 short story “The Swimmer,” renters might attempt to swim across a county, or side stroke through several states.

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John Cheever took the train in, but his work was mostly about those bedroom communities.

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