Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey

The Cheever Chronicles

A Great American Novelist Gets His Dazzling Due

By Vince Passaro
O, The Oprah Magazine | From the March 2009 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine

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Vince Passaro reviews Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey, a biography of a great American novelist.

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