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Falconer | [John Cheever]
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Falconer

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  • by John Cheever
  • Narrated by Jay Snyder

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  • LENGTH
    6 hrs and 30 mins
  • RELEASE DATE
    06-30-09
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Publisher's Summary

Stunning and brutally powerful, Falconer tells the story of a man named Farragut, his crime and punishment, and his struggle to remain a man in a universe bent on beating him back into his childhood. Only Cheever could deliver these grand themes with the irony, unforced eloquence, and exhilarating humor that make this book such a triumphant work of moral imagination.

This production is part of our Audible Modern Vanguard line, a collection of important works from groundbreaking authors.

©1977 John Cheever; (P)2009 Audible, Inc.

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"Falconer is splendid. It is rough, it is elegant, it is pure. It is also indispensable, if you earnestly desire to know what is happening to the human soul in the U.S.A." (Saul Bellow)

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    Darwin8u Mesa, AZ, United States 01-21-13
    Darwin8u Mesa, AZ, United States 01-21-13

    A part-time buffoon and ersatz scholar specializing in BS, pedantry, schmaltz and cultural coprophagia.

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    "Unsettling and beautiful"

    There is something both unsettling and beautiful about this compact Cheever novel. A novel of punishment and redemption, Falconer is also a story of addiction, of confinement, of an introspective man moving from his isolated past to his very human present.

    It is hard to compare Cheever's style to anyone, but there were moments where I felt I was floating in the same literary river as O'Connor, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, and Percy. His prose is amazing, his imagination is sharp, and the depth of his soul-searching is absolutely sublime.

    Jay Snyder's narration and this Audible Modern Vanguard production were nearly perfect.

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