From : The Guardian
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A funny, astute and clear-eyed biography of John Cheever impresses Blake Morrison.
"I have no biography," John Cheever once wrote. "I came from nowhere and I don't know where I'm going." Like many of his claims, it's one to be treated with suspicion. He knew exactly where he came from – an old and illustrious Yankee family, with a weakness for drink and profligacy. He'd a strong sense of where he was going, too – Mount Parnassus, or the American fiction writer's equivalent. As to biography, few writers' lives have been so painstakingly documented: he did it himself, in his incomparable journals; his daughter Susan and son Ben have written .
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