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Bullet Park is a 1969 novel by American Novelist John Cheever about an earnest yet pensive father Eliot Nailles and his troubled son Tony, and their predestined fate with a psychotic man Hammer, who moves to Bullet Park to sacrifice one of them.
From “a master American storyteller” (TIME), Bullet Park traces the fateful intersection of two men: Eliot Nailles, a nice fellow who loves his wife and son to blissful distraction, and the man who, after half a lifetime of drifting, settles down in Bullet Park with one objective—to murder Nailles’s son.
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By John Cheever. November 17, 1967. The New Yorker, November 25, 1967 P. 56. A stranger gets off a train in Bullet Park, a wealthy suburb, and is met by a real estate agent named Howard. The...
Where Falconer deals with Cheever’s sexuality by situating the protagonist in lockup, both metaphorically and actually, in a highly allegorized setting, an idyll of the purely masculine, beginning there to find a way out, Bullet Park throbs with discomforts that cannot be said entirely, and imagines convulsions of inexplicable cruelty and ...
A review of Bullet Park by John Cheever. There are people who believe that when writers pass middle age their imaginative power—like their sexual energy—tends to diminish.
Sep 22, 2020 · Cheever, John. Publication date. 1969. Topics. American fiction -- 20th century, American fiction. Publisher. New York : Ballantine Books. Collection.
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Jan 15, 1992 · John Cheever's Bullet Park is a magical mystery tour that transports the reader back to the world of suburban New York in the Sixties. Cheever's brilliant way with words makes for both a delicious and fantastical ride.
- John Cheever
