Water Music
Allon White, 2 September 1982
Collected Short Stories
by John Cheever.
Penguin, 704 pp., £4.95, March 1982,0 14 005575 4 Show More
by John Cheever.
Penguin, 704 pp., £4.95, March 1982,
So long a Letter
by Mariama Bâ, translated by Modupé Bodé-Thomas.
Virago, £5.50, August 1982,0 86068 295 1 Show More
by Mariama Bâ, translated by Modupé Bodé-Thomas.
Virago, £5.50, August 1982,
A joke goes a long way in the country
by Alannah Hopkin.
Hamish Hamilton, 157 pp., £7.95, July 1982,0 241 10798 9 Show More
by Alannah Hopkin.
Hamish Hamilton, 157 pp., £7.95, July 1982,
“... One time in four, and usually to everyone’s surprise, John Cheever’s heroes spring a wry and furtive victory over disappointment. Cheever is irresistible in describing those delicious moments of triumph when a dogged loser suddenly strikes a home run – like Farragut’s escape from the penitentiary at the end of Falconer. Cheever’s fiction is full of the kind of episode in which the amiably incompetent warm our hearts with an unexpected success, and Oh what a paradise it seems is no exception ... ”
